"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cftrke$1fg1$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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> "Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
> > I think it would be better to spread the load among different persons.
> >
> > A professional author (like Matthew for example) can do it much easier and without negative effects on language development and support.
> >
> > The problem is perhaps that the language must be stable, otherwise this "language bible" is quickly outdated.
> >
> > There should also be program examples for all important application areas to let D really shine.
>
> For me also, writing articles and books always reminds me of writing term papers back in college. Not my favorite task <g>. Matthew and I have written some articles about D and they've been published in CUJ and DDJ. I have another one pending with DDJ.
>
> But there's nothing stopping anyone here from writing articles about D. I know I'm a little weary of reading articles about C++, so much ground has been repeatedly covered by articles that newer articles seem to be mostly about esoterica, not much of interest to mainstream C++ coding. But the article space for D is vast, unexplored territory, and fertile ground for articles. And CUJ and DDJ actually pay money for articles! Their editorial staffs have indicated to me they are very receptive to articles about D.
>
> Many of you are expert D programmers and are experts at particular kinds of D programming applications. Writing articles about your products would be straightforward, such as articles about unicode programming, gui programming, threading, templates, etc. How about it?

I'll be happy to review D articles.

And I'd even be prepared to co-author some, as long as it would be a true division of labour, rather than me just doing it all. ;)

Matthew

"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
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>
> kinghajj wrote:
> >
> > In article <cfqt3v$2nem$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> > >
> > >Yes, it's just that I'm not a very good writer :-(
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Nor are most of us... just try your best!
>
> I think it would be better to spread the load among different persons.
>
> A professional author (like Matthew for example) can do it much easier and without negative effects on language development and support.

Well, I don't think it's a state secret that Walter and I are going to be writing a book on D in the non-too distant
future. We just need to (i) get the time and (ii) ensure that the language is sufficiently mature and stable such that
the book is not outdated (as Helmut sagely observes below)

> The problem is perhaps that the language must be stable, otherwise this "language bible" is quickly outdated.
>
> There should also be program examples for all important application areas to let D really shine.

Good point.

>"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...

>> A professional author (like Matthew for example) ...

Really? What books have you written, Matthew?

"kinghajj" <kinghajj_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfu9br$1lmj$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
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> >> A professional author (like Matthew for example) ...
>
> Really? What books have you written, Matthew?

Well, the term "professional author" is Helmut's term, not mine.

Nonetheless, I have been doing a lot of writing over the last couple of years. Check out http://www.synesis.com.au/articles.html.

My first published book, "Imperfect C++", is out on Sept 9th (http://www.imperfectcplusplus.com/, http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321228774/).

I am working on three other books, one of which isn't about C++. You guess what language ...

In article <cfu9ip$1lpv$2@digitaldaemon.com>, Matthew says...
>
>
>"kinghajj" <kinghajj_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfu9br$1lmj$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> >"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
>>
>> >> A professional author (like Matthew for example) ...
>>
>> Really? What books have you written, Matthew?
>
>Well, the term "professional author" is Helmut's term, not mine.
>
>Nonetheless, I have been doing a lot of writing over the last couple of years. Check out http://www.synesis.com.au/articles.html.
>
>My first published book, "Imperfect C++", is out on Sept 9th (http://www.imperfectcplusplus.com/, http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321228774/).
>
>I am working on three other books, one of which isn't about C++. You guess what language ...
>
>
>
Great! The day a D programming book is on the shelves at B&N will be a great day.

"antiAlias" <fu@bar.com> wrote in message news:cfu04n$1hq7$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> "Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:cftrke$1fg1$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Many of you are expert D programmers and are experts at particular kinds
> of
> > D programming applications. Writing articles about your products would
be
> > straightforward, such as articles about unicode programming, gui programming, threading, templates, etc. How about it?
>
> How about one regarding the efficiency benefits of array-slicing? I might
be
> able to cobble something together based on results from mango.http.server
&
> mango.servlet (once 'primed', they make zero memory-allocations ~ the GC
> simply never runs).

I think that has potential to be a great article!

In article <cftrke$1fg1$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>
>
>"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
>> I think it would be better to spread the load among different persons.
>>
>> A professional author (like Matthew for example) can do it much easier and without negative effects on language development and support.
>>
>> The problem is perhaps that the language must be stable, otherwise this "language bible" is quickly outdated.
>>
>> There should also be program examples for all important application areas to let D really shine.
>
>For me also, writing articles and books always reminds me of writing term papers back in college. Not my favorite task <g>. Matthew and I have written some articles about D and they've been published in CUJ and DDJ. I have another one pending with DDJ.
>
>But there's nothing stopping anyone here from writing articles about D. I know I'm a little weary of reading articles about C++, so much ground has been repeatedly covered by articles that newer articles seem to be mostly about esoterica, not much of interest to mainstream C++ coding. But the article space for D is vast, unexplored territory, and fertile ground for articles. And CUJ and DDJ actually pay money for articles! Their editorial staffs have indicated to me they are very receptive to articles about D.
>
>Many of you are expert D programmers and are experts at particular kinds of D programming applications. Writing articles about your products would be straightforward, such as articles about unicode programming, gui programming, threading, templates, etc. How about it?
>
>


Out of curiosity, how does one go about sumitting articles to CUJ or DDJ?

-Deja

"Deja Augustine" <Deja_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfum32$21ab$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Out of curiosity, how does one go about sumitting articles to CUJ or DDJ?

I just email it to them, with a subject line "Article Submission".

That might work for Walter ;) , but for others theirs usually a section in the magazine on how to submit articles, each month has a topic etc, must be word document ... dont quote me on that but you get the gist, its near the end usually.

Blue


In article <cfumqr$21uq$2@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>
>"Deja Augustine" <Deja_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfum32$21ab$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Out of curiosity, how does one go about sumitting articles to CUJ or DDJ?
>
>I just email it to them, with a subject line "Article Submission".
>
>

kinghajj wrote:

>>"Helmut Leitner" <leitner@hls.via.at> wrote in message news:412200EF.42A6A05B@hls.via.at...
> 
> 
>>>A professional author (like Matthew for example) ...
> 
> 
> Really? What books have you written, Matthew?
> 
> 

AHHH! You had to ask him that question!

<g>

Just ribbing you, Matthew  ;-)