Lost a new commercial user this week :(

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On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 13:33:08 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 09:15:18 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 12/18/2014 2:24 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> People aren't allocated work time to read books.
>>
>> This can't be generally true. Most people who attend 
>> programming conferences, for example, are attending on their 
>> employer's dime.
>
> Are you _quite_ sure about that?  Because all my experience 
> agrees with Manu.  If any of us (I think we have about 400 
> developers here?) have need of a book, we're skimming it and 
> cherry-picking the important bits to what needs done _right 
> now_.
>  This is part of why I really appreciate that Andrei had a 
> proper index written for TDPL; it makes it fit into "real 
> world" workflows (as I know them) much better.
>
> The class of people who attend programming conferences is an 
> extreme minority of our field.  They're about as representative 
> of our industry as you believe the posters on these newsgroups 
> are of the D userbase.

New D developers at Sociomantic are given "Learn Tango with D" 
book and time to investigate it in details before starting any 
real work. Job I had before was crappy enterprise mess but there 
still was time reserved for books in a developer schedule. I'd 
expect it from any half-decent job.