Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/20/2015 07:02 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: BTW: For everybody searching on amazon.de: Use the full title Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference. If you only search for Programming in D it's not on the first few result pages... Thanks for the tip. I think Amazon's search engine is slowly

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/2015 6:25 PM, Mike wrote: On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 06:50:51 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Humm, I wonder if we could strip it out before the final link. I tried a number of things, all discussed on the D.gnu forum (http://forum.dlang.org/post/quemhwpgijwmqtpxu...@forum.dlang.org). The only hack that worked

Re: scriptlike v0.9.3

2015-08-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/20/2015 05:44 PM, biorelated wrote: Many thanks! But I wish it came with a couple of examples on usage in addition to the API. :) Yea, examples/tutorials for it are getting pretty high on my priority list for it. I want to do a blog posting or two as well.

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread notna via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 00:57:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am very happy! :) So am I! Finally I'll have it in my hands soon, thanks! Maybe I'll get a more frequent D user with your help ;) And the book will always be freely available as well but I haven't updated the web site

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:09:53 -0700 schrieb Ali Çehreli acehr...@yahoo.com: On 08/20/2015 07:02 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: BTW: For everybody searching on amazon.de: Use the full title Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference. If you only search for Programming in D it's not on the first

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 14:59 +, Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Oh, an official Docker image would also help. Look at Go's: https://hub.docker.com/_/golang/ Go 1.3, how appallingly out of date, it's 1.5 now. -- Russel.

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:57:31 -0700 schrieb Ali Çehreli acehr...@yahoo.com: I am very happy! :) It will be available on many other distribution channels like Amazon in a few days as well but the following is the link that pays me the most royalty: https://www.createspace.com/5618128

Re: ∅MQD messaging library v1.0 released

2015-08-20 Thread Lars T. Kyllingstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 20:44:25 UTC, Suliman wrote: Lars, did you thought about full port? I read post of etcimon about his Botan lib. He eventual decided to rewrite original lib from C++ to D to make code more easier maintainable. I considered it, yes, but it is a *lot* more work, and

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread Nordlöw
On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 00:57:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Enjoy, and go buy some books! ;) Thank you!

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:59:33 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:45:24 UTC, Daniel wrote: One thing that always comes to mind is that D does not have a free, extensive, structured good reference as Go (https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro) and Rust

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:45:24 UTC, Daniel wrote: One thing that always comes to mind is that D does not have a free, extensive, structured good reference as Go (https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro) and Rust (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html) do. I mean, compare D's

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread Olivier Pisano via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 00:57:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am very happy! :) It will be available on many other distribution channels like Amazon in a few days as well but the following is the link that pays me the most royalty: https://www.createspace.com/5618128 This revision

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-20 Thread Israel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 17:09:54 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 08/20/2015 07:02 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: BTW: For everybody searching on amazon.de: Use the full title Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference. If you only search for Programming in D it's not on the first few result

Re: scriptlike v0.9.3

2015-08-20 Thread biorelated via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 22:08:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Minor update to scriptlike: Utility library to aid in writing script-like programs in D. Homepage and features: https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike On DUB: http://code.dlang.org/packages/scriptlike API Reference:

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday 20 August 2015 17:18, Daniel wrote: Anyway, I didn't know about Ali's book. Maybe it could be linked at dlang.org's left menu? It's the first link on the Getting Started page (added somewhat recently). And it's the first link in the Books Articles section. I wouldn't oppose a