TDPL stats

2010-09-16 Thread Justin Johansson
It's been a few months now since Andrei's TDPL has been published. May I ask (of Andrei) if the sales volume of TDPL indicate a growing user base for D? Perhaps Nick S might like to conduct another micropoll to review delta in uptake. Cheers Justin Johansson

TDPL stats

2010-02-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines Failing unittests: 841 lines Andrei

Re: TDPL stats

2010-09-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/16/10 9:23 CDT, Justin Johansson wrote: It's been a few months now since Andrei's TDPL has been published. May I ask (of Andrei) if the sales volume of TDPL indicate a growing user base for D? I receive a statement every six months from the publisher, and the next one should come, I thin

Re: TDPL stats

2010-09-16 Thread Marianne Gagnon
> I receive a statement every six months from the publisher, and the next > one should come, I think, around October. Until then, one indicator is > the Amazon sales rank, which right now is around 150K (lower is better; > this is not a great rank). A large jump in adoption hasn't happened at

Re: TDPL stats

2010-09-17 Thread Paulo Pinto
Not from me. I did bought the book and found it a nice reading. But I cannot find any killer feature in D that would make me switch language, at least for the type of development of I do. I imagine there can be many readers out there like me. -- Paulo "Justin Johansson" wrote in message new

Re: TDPL stats

2010-09-17 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, September 17, 2010 07:16:54 Paulo Pinto wrote: > Not from me. > > I did bought the book and found it a nice reading. > > But I cannot find any killer feature in D that would make me switch > language, at least for the type > of development of I do. > > I imagine there can be many read

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-16 Thread BCS
Hello Andrei, Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines Failing unittests: 841 lines Yeh! A book that has unittest! :) (I really think that should be standard in CS books, and you might as well ship them in dig

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Teale
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and > back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines > Failing unittests: 841 lines > > Andrei Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have th

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Steve Teale wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines Failing unittests: 841 lines Andrei Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or d

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-17 Thread Steve Teale
>> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that >> joy? > > "Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the fuss. > > I'll do my own index. By choice! > > > Andrei Glad to hear that choice, otherwise I suspect it would be useless. Who did you get as

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-17 Thread Justin Johansson
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Steve Teale wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines Failing unittests: 841 lines Andrei Horrible process. Are they

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Justin Johansson wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Steve Teale wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines Failing unittests: 841 lines Andrei

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-17 Thread BCS
Hello Andrei, Justin Johansson wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Steve Teale wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines Failing unittests: 84

Re: TDPL stats

2010-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
BCS wrote: Some kind of word/phrase selector tool would be interesting. Comparing the occurrence rate of phrases from your text to some relevant corpus and selecting based on that might make for a starting point... I wonder what that would show. For one thing, I learned that "in vigor" is not