Good D book

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So this means there is no chance to obtain the TDPL legally in some 
accessible format? I mean similar to chapter 1, which is released on 
dlang.org. For blind, PDF or even paper makes no sense...
Well, PDF sometimes, but rarely.

Dňa 13. 10. 2012 11:40 Jonathan M Davis  wrote / napísal(a):
> On Saturday, October 13, 2012 11:29:29 Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> I've been using D for a few months now, and i love it. It dawned
>> on me that it would be nice to have some books to go over though!
>>
>> I saw "The D Programming Language" by Andrei Alexandrescu on
>> Amazon, and I almost bought it when I saw it was written in 2010.
>> I know that D is under development, so would this book still be a
>> viable option?
>>
>> Are there any other books that someone would recommend?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>
> That is _the_ D book. It's mostly correct, and what's not should be in the
> errata:
>
> http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/
>
> The main exceptions would be a few items which haven't been fully implemented
> yet (e.g. multiple alias thises per type), but they should be implemented
> eventually, so the book will become _more_ correct in that regard. TDPL is
> pretty much intended to be the definitive resource on D. It's the best
> programming book that I've ever read, and I'd strongly recommend it to anyone
> learning D. I think that any serious D programmer who doesn't read it is short
> changing themselves.
>
> The only other option that I'm aware of is this free, online book by Ali
> Çehreli:
>
> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
>
> It was originally written in Turkish, but a lot of it has been translated. I
> really don't know how good it is though, as I haven't read much of it (though
> I expect that it's just fine given who the author is). But if you're not
> willing to shell out the $34 for TDPL or want another reference, there's no
> question that it's the best that there is.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>