"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:ielekh$1qg...@digitalmars.com... > > Having a major publisher decide to take risks and invest money in > producing at professional quality and marketing a book on a up-and-coming > language is a clear signal that they believe in the success of the book > and consequently that of the language. >
FWIW, if I'm trying to discern the quality or worth of a language, I wouldn't really consider a book publisher to be an authority on that any more than, say, a dentist. (Well, ok, maybe more than a dentist, but you get what I mean.)