• weaselcat (6/6) Jan 05 2015 Is it still worth buying TDPL since it's almost 5 years old? I
• =?UTF-8?B?IlRow6lv?= Bueno" (4/10) Jan 05 2015 Book quality is fine, although the paper is quite thin.
• Brad Anderson (9/15) Jan 05 2015 I'd definitely recommend reading it. The vast majority of it is
• Joakim (15/20) Jan 06 2015 Andrei is a very good writer and presenter of ideas, so I'd say
• weaselcat (7/14) Jan 06 2015 Oh, that's disappointing. My 20-some year old secondhand copy of
• Steven Schveighoffer (6/8) Jan 06 2015 I would still recommend buying. TDPL purposely was very scant on phobos

"weaselcat" <weaselcat gmail.com> writes:

Is it still worth buying TDPL since it's almost 5 years old? I 
realize classics like K&R C are near timeless, but D has seen a 
lot of changes.
Has the ebook version been updated at all(i.e, with the errata?)
How is the physical quality of the print book?

Thanks. -

=?UTF-8?B?IlRow6lv?= Bueno" <munrek gmx.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 03:20:27 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
 Is it still worth buying TDPL since it's almost 5 years old? I 
 realize classics like K&R C are near timeless, but D has seen a 
 lot of changes.
 Has the ebook version been updated at all(i.e, with the errata?)
 How is the physical quality of the print book?

 Thanks. -

Book quality is fine, although the paper is quite thin.
I don't think there is that much outdated information in TDPL.

I don't have any ideas about the ebook version.

"Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:

On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 03:20:27 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
 Is it still worth buying TDPL since it's almost 5 years old? I 
 realize classics like K&R C are near timeless, but D has seen a 
 lot of changes.
 Has the ebook version been updated at all(i.e, with the errata?)
 How is the physical quality of the print book?

 Thanks. -

I'd definitely recommend reading it. The vast majority of it is 
still very accurate and it's just a great read.

You may find this handy: 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Differences_With_TDPL

My Kindle version has not been updated with errata changes the 
last time I looked. Andrei has mentioned that there would be 
another printing with changes but that was awhile back so I'm not 
sure if that's still planned.

"Joakim" <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 03:20:27 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
 Is it still worth buying TDPL since it's almost 5 years old? I 
 realize classics like K&R C are near timeless, but D has seen a 
 lot of changes.
 Has the ebook version been updated at all(i.e, with the errata?)
 How is the physical quality of the print book?

Andrei is a very good writer and presenter of ideas, so I'd say 
it's still worth it if you want to learn D.  The book was written 
to some extent as a sort of spec, so there are still features in 
the book that are unimplemented, meaning I don't think you have 
to worry much about changes.  Of course, it isn't continually 
updated like Ali's online book (http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/), so 
it's missing a few recently added features.

I don't know if the ebook is updated, but the physical quality of 
the softcover print book is not good.  Mine fell apart about 
halfway through reading it, it's in 3-4 chunks now.  I wish there 
had been a pdf version available at the time, as I always prefer 
an electronic version and bought the pdf version of Adam's book.  
I wasn't interested in signing up for informIT's book 
subscription service to read it on a screen.

"weaselcat" <weaselcat gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 09:51:13 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 I don't know if the ebook is updated, but the physical quality 
 of the softcover print book is not good.  Mine fell apart about 
 halfway through reading it, it's in 3-4 chunks now.  I wish 
 there had been a pdf version available at the time, as I always 
 prefer an electronic version and bought the pdf version of 
 Adam's book.  I wasn't interested in signing up for informIT's 
 book subscription service to read it on a screen.

Oh, that's disappointing. My 20-some year old secondhand copy of
K&R C seems like it could last a nuclear blast haha.

Thanks everyone for their answers, I'll pick up the ebook version
- I already bought Ruppe's book and have thoroughly read Ali's D
book(extremely good book quality, especially for being free) and
wanted more.

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On 1/5/15 10:20 PM, weaselcat wrote:
 Is it still worth buying TDPL since it's almost 5 years old? I realize
 classics like K&R C are near timeless, but D has seen a lot of changes.

I would still recommend buying. TDPL purposely was very scant on phobos 
because it was constantly changing. The language features are generally 
accurate. The developers try to make sure we do not invalidate TDPL 
without a very good reason.

-Steve