I find this odd as well. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ivar Nesje <iva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The book is written by Malcolm Sherrington. He has a very limited online > presence and only two threads on julia-users, and I couldn't find his > github username. I got the two first chapters for review, but they gave me > short deadlines and I felt so bad about missing their imposed 3 day > deadline, that I stopped replying. I didn't have the attention span to > really sit down to try to nest the loose ends, and give more useful > comments than typos and small errors. Maybe it was just that a language > introduction is hard to write, and that it will improve when the basics are > known. > > I'm very curious how someone can write a book about Julia, at this stage, > without discovering anything that would be worth opening an issue on github > to get fixed. I generally find issues and potential improvements everywhere > I look, and frankly that's one of the most fun thing about being part of > the language development at this early stage.