On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 12:36:12AM +0000, Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Monday, 17 December 2018 at 15:32:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> 
> > There's a few minor changes in mine (the D Cookbook one), and a few typos in the book I didn't catch until too late that mean some examples won't literally compile anyway, but they are all quite small.
> 
> Are these typos obvious, or is there an errata?
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http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/


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On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 00:36:12 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> Are these typos obvious, or is there an errata?

They're obvious. Stuff like doubled ; at the end of lines in code samples, or curly quotes when they should be straight. (They are the result of me fighting Microsoft Word and the review process with the publisher.)

A few other things have changed, like near the end, there is a sample of my terminal library and back then it was `import terminal;`. Now it is `import arsd.terminal;` if you use the newer version of the library. But the rest still works.

On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 01:16:54 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

> They're obvious. Stuff like doubled ; at the end of lines in code samples, or curly quotes when they should be straight. (They are the result of me fighting Microsoft Word and the review process with the publisher.)
>
> A few other things have changed, like near the end, there is a sample of my terminal library and back then it was `import terminal;`. Now it is `import arsd.terminal;` if you use the newer version of the library. But the rest still works.

Thanks, Adam.

And I know what you mean about fighting MS Word. It's like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle while the cat keeps batting pieces onto the floor. Invariably, you're gonna end up diving for a piece and banging your head on the table.

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 18:37:15 UTC, Marko wrote:
> On Amazon The D Programming Language has good reviews but it's 8 years old. So is this book still relevant today?

Yes, I would recommend it. It is meant to be comprehensive but introductory, so many language or library changes since are out of the scope anyway. It's then also quite different from a cookbook approach for example -- depends what you're looking for. You may perhaps compare it more closely with Ali's book, but unfortunately I haven't read this one.

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 19:57:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 12/16/18 1:37 PM, Marko wrote:
>> On Amazon The D Programming Language has good reviews but it's 8 years old. So is this book still relevant today?
>
> Mostly, yes. And it's a pretty good book, even if it has some outdated parts. There's errata somewhere too.
>
>> 
>> Would you recommend another book?
>
> I highly recommend this book (available online for free or you can purchase a hard copy): http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
>
> It is continually updated by Ali, so it should be up to date with the latest compiler.
>
>> 
>> PS: I am already a programmer writing mainly in C and C#.
>
> I hope you feel right at home here :) But I must warn you, if you're anything like me, you will hate having to go back to another language.
>
> -Steve

Too bad when I need to go back to C# and/or C++ for a while. haha