D Programming Language Specification ebook

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Walter Bright wrote:

> On 7/4/2011 3:40 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On 2011-07-04 03:24, bearophile wrote:
>>> Maybe older people equate free with "bad", but newer generations are
>>> used to find good content for free on Internet. Is D designed for older
>>> people, people used to C and C++, that hate JavaScript?
>>
>> There's a difference between free on the internet and a free book.
> 
> Exactly. It may not make rational sense, but it's true.
> 
> Free books are regarded today like free software was 20 years ago - it
> must be crap.

This does not hold for technical documentation. For TDPL yes, but not for a 
programming language specification.

This view is also losing ground for programming books. There are a quite a 
few high quality books distributed online for free, even with a paper 
publishing deal.