On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 02:17:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, June 14, 2013 20:29:09 monarch_dodra wrote:
On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 15:38:02 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> Any plans on that now that language is stable enough? Andrei
> authoring maybe?
Who would write it?
I'm a bit reticent to bring it up given that I won't be done
anytime soon, but
I actually started writing such a book following DConf. After
Andrew brought
up the possibility of Effective D in his talk and all of the
talk that occurred
at DConf about doing more with tutorials and publishing best
practices, I
decided that I'd give it shot.
And while I'm sure that there's plenty more best practices that
we'll figure
out over time, and some of what we do know has been shifting as
we learn, I
think that we do know enough at this point about best practices
in D to fill
such a book.
Interestingly enough, based on Andrei's suggestions, I'm
writing it using ddoc
so that it can easily be converted into latex, html, and e-book
formats rather
than being tied to any particular format (I was going to use
latex, but Andrei
thought that a macro language would be better as latex is very
tied to physical
print and fixed layouts). It'll probably be the first book ever
to be written
entirely in ddoc.
- Jonathan M Davis
Good jobs, I'm very much looking forward to reading it!
