Programming in D On Goodreads

WhatMeWorry via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 18 19:49:11 PDT 2015


> The dragon book is pretty much in textbook price territory (and 
> it is used as one), so that's _way_ higher than your typical 
> programming books costs, but $25 - $30 is still on the low end. 
> Given that it's also available for free online, I suppose that 
> that does change the equation a bit, since arguably, folks are 
> paying primarily for what it costs to print and distribute it 
> more than really paying Ali for his time and effort, but if it 
> really costs that much to print and distribute it, then that's 
> what it costs. And honestly, if Ali wants to make some money 
> off the print version, I think that that's perfectly reasonable.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I see the dragon book has four authors.  I bet Walter Bright by 
himself could write a better one. :)


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