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.
