is it possible to learn D(2)?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jeff Nowakowski" <jeff at dilacero.org> wrote in message 
news:ieja3o$gf0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 12/18/2010 03:16 PM, Don wrote:
>> Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>>> D2 has *never* been officially released (like D1 was), though its
>>> release was supposed to coincide with the release of Andrei's book.
>>
>> Where did you get that idea? I've never heard it before.
>> (Genuine question, I'd like to know where that impression came from).
>
> Which idea are you questioning? That D2 hasn't been "released", or that 
> the two were supposed to come out together? The answer to both would be 
> the newsgroup.
>
> There was plenty of talk about them coming out together, and then time 
> went by, and Andrei's book was relatively quietly released (unless I 
> missed some big announcement; my memory was of posts trickling in of 
> people who had pre-ordered), and no mention was made of D2 being released 
> any more along with the book.
>

I only remember the talk being about the D2 language spec getting frozen 
from breaking changes when the book came out. And that's happened.