What is this D book?

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Sun Dec 19 19:45:24 PST 2010


More info and background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrimeHunter/Alphascript_Publishing_sells_free_articles_as_expensive_books

On 12/20/10, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am 20.12.2010 04:29, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:
>> I've accidentally stumbled upon this page:
>> http://www.amazon.com/programming-language-Frederic-P-Miller/dp/6131799954/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292815189&sr=1-1
>>
>> Apparently this is some D book that was published in July this year, but
>> I've never heard of this before. It also has a stamp that says "High
>> quality content by Wikipedia articles". What does that mean? Did they
>> collect wiki articles about D and put them in a book?
>>
>> Actually I was looking at Google's cool new Ngram thingy:
>> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=D+programming&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
>>
>> You can click on one of those year range links to get all books that have
>> some specific term, like "D programming" in them (there's a lot of
>> false-positives though, e.g. 3D programming, :p).
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphascript
>


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