is it possible to learn D(2)?

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The main issue is perceived value. Books are not T-shirts as significant 
> time would have to be spent on reading them. Say I had 40 people in the 
> audience and 40 books. Then it would have been like passing around 
> marketing samples of no perceived value.

Right. If you passed them out to all comers, they'd share the fate of all such 
premiums. A third would be left on the floor, a third in the trash bins on the 
way out, a third taken home and forgotten about, and none read.