suggestion: D Book Project

Gregor Richards Richards at codu.org
Tue Sep 5 17:19:56 PDT 2006


Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:17:05 -0700, Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:31:12 -0400, Agent Orange wrote:
>>>
>>>> We should write a book about D, or even a D for C++ programmers book. It 
>>>> would probably only be a handfull of chapters, and one or a couple 
>>>> people could do each chapter. maybe even do it on a wiki or something. I 
>>>> dont know how the styles would mesh but I just thought this would be 
>>>> pretty cool to have.
>>> May I refer you to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/D_Programming
>>>
>> That book is not arranged like a book.  Nobody could actually learn D 
>> from it, even if it was fleshed out.  It needs to be scrapped.
> 
> Sorry for my far-too-obtuse reference. ;-)
> 
> What I was trying to get across was that there already exists a wiki
> platform for writing online books. As an example, there is the beginnings
> of a D Reference manual. If one wanted to, one could also use the same
> platform to write a "How To Program using D" style of book. 
> 
> As a start, why not write your proposed TOC as the opening page in such a
> new endeavor. I know I would like to contribute to it.
> 

The main problem I have with wikibook is that, without somebody as the 
official, ordained editor, often people feel that they shouldn't make 
large rearrangements, when often it's the best solution.  So, it can 
become fairly stagnant after the original editor either becomes 
disinterested or simply "finishes" it in his mind.

  - Gregor Richards

PS: I'll start one this evening.



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