On 04/28/2010 02:21 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> I put a countdown on my website (http://erdani.com/) displaying the days
>> left to final bound dead-tree copies of TDPL. Also, the book cover
>> (front and back) is now available for preview at
>> http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> There's an extra dot in your second URL which downloads an empty PDF file. And an extra parenthesis in your first URL. :)

Good point (plus a good pun now (actually two if you count the parenthesis (I'm on a roll over here))). For the lazy:

http://erdani.com

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf

http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf


Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 04/28/2010 02:21 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> >
> >> I put a countdown on my website (http://erdani.com/) displaying the days left to final bound dead-tree copies of TDPL. Also, the book cover (front and back) is now available for preview at http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf.
> >>
> >> Andrei
> >
> > There's an extra dot in your second URL which downloads an empty PDF file. And an extra parenthesis in your first URL. :)
> 
> Good point (plus a good pun now (actually two if you count the parenthesis (I'm on a roll over here))). For the lazy:
> 
> http://erdani.com
> 
> http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf
> 
> http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf
> 
> 
> Andrei

If I see any puns like this in your book...






..then I'm buying an extra copy and sending it to a friend.

On 04/28/2010 03:14 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> On 04/28/2010 02:21 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>>>
>>>> I put a countdown on my website (http://erdani.com/) displaying the days
>>>> left to final bound dead-tree copies of TDPL. Also, the book cover
>>>> (front and back) is now available for preview at
>>>> http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf.
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> There's an extra dot in your second URL which downloads an empty PDF file. And an extra parenthesis in your first URL. :)
>>
>> Good point (plus a good pun now (actually two if you count the
>> parenthesis (I'm on a roll over here))). For the lazy:
>>
>> http://erdani.com
>>
>> http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf
>>
>> http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> If I see any puns like this in your book...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ..then I'm buying an extra copy and sending it to a friend.

Whew. In fact it ain't that bad:

[~] cd tdpl
[~/tdpl] grep pun *.tex
0100-intro.tex:punctuation that  makes, for example,  ``him.''  and ``him''  count as
0300-statements.tex:         writeln("a punctuation mark.");
0300-statements.tex:   string y = "I'm here to make a point (and a pun).";
[~] _

So only one ostensible pun. There are a couple undeclared ones though. One that comes to mind:

==========================================
@import@ is akin
to the  \cc{\#include} preprocessor  directive found in\sbs  C and\sbs
C++  but is  closer in  semantics to  Python's @import@:  there  is no
textual    inclusion    taking    place---just    a    symbol    table
acquisition.   Repeated   @import@s   of   the  same   file   are   of
no import.
==========================================


Andrei

Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> ..then I'm buying an extra copy and sending it to a friend.

Makes a great Mother's Day gift too!

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > ..then I'm buying an extra copy and sending it to a friend.
> 
> Makes a great Mother's Day gift too!

Are you implying the D language book is fiction? :p

Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
> 
>> Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> ..then I'm buying an extra copy and sending it to a friend.
>> Makes a great Mother's Day gift too!
> 
> Are you implying the D language book is fiction? :p

It's a "cookbook" of sorts ;-)

Brian Hay wrote:
> It's a "cookbook" of sorts ;-)

In a way, it is. As the back cover says, it isn't just a dry list of features, it shows how to combine them to solve common problems in a very modern way.

On 04/28/2010 09:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Brian Hay wrote:
>> It's a "cookbook" of sorts ;-)
>
> In a way, it is. As the back cover says, it isn't just a dry list of
> features, it shows how to combine them to solve common problems in a
> very modern way.

Here's an unrelated piece of info that I'm very excited about: today for the first time TDPL has outranked Modern C++ Design on Amazon.

MC++D Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,580 in Books
TDPL  Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,194 in Books

Yay! I'm now worried about disappointing people...


Andrei

P.S. Details about Amazon's ranking system - the numbers that authors follow obsessively: http://www.fonerbooks.com/surfing.htm

On 28/04/10 19:34, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 12:50 PM, Ezneh wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>>
>>> I put a countdown on my website (http://erdani.com/) displaying the
>>> days left to final bound dead-tree copies of TDPL. Also, the book
>>> cover (front and back) is now available for preview at
>>> http://erdani.com/tdpl/cover.pdf.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Great, but will this book be purchasable in Europa ? I hope so
>> because I'm really waiting for it.
>
> Thanks for your interest! Absolutely. Blackwell (UK), amazon.co.uk,
> amazon.de, amazon.fr and amazon.jp are all carrying the book, along many
> others. I suspect the shipping delays for Europe and Asia would be a tad
> higher though because the printing press is in Stoughton, Massachusetts
> (i.e. US East Coast).

Surprisingly, the savings are also higher, and not just a tad:
	amazon.com:   $49.99->$42.70
	amazon.co.uk: £36.99->£18.50 !!!