[HN Gopher] Mastering Nim - now available on Amazon
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       Mastering Nim - now available on Amazon
        
       Author : kindaAnIdiot
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2022-06-29 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nim-lang.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nim-lang.org)
        
       | fprotthetarball wrote:
       | I am hoping for an eBook. I don't have a lot of space for books,
       | but my computer or phone is always nearby.
        
         | auggierose wrote:
         | An e-book is going to heavily (and negatively) impact the sales
         | figures for the print book. So I wouldn't hold out for that.
         | Looking at the price of the book, he wants to make money from
         | it, so no e-book is probably the right strategy.
        
           | fprotthetarball wrote:
           | I have no problem paying the same price for an eBook as
           | print. If there is some reason a physical product must be
           | involved, bundle both. I'll keep the eBook and donate the
           | physical book to a library.
        
         | krasin wrote:
         | There's a free ebook by a different author, Dr. Stefan
         | Salewski, "Computer Programming with the Nim Programming
         | Language": https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html
        
       | ternaryoperator wrote:
       | Looking at the excerpt on Amazon, the Acknowledgments part of the
       | preface lists numerous people and concludes with: "This book
       | would be as good as it is without your help." The author might
       | want to fix that.
        
         | sbelskie wrote:
         | I like to think the author is thanking them for their efforts
         | despite said efforts having produced nothing of value.
        
         | LastMuel wrote:
         | This appears to have been fixed in the Amazon page I just
         | pulled up.
         | 
         | If so, that was a quick edit.
        
           | ternaryoperator wrote:
           | It's still there, at least on Amazon.com. I haven't checked
           | other Amazon sites.
        
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       | cb321 wrote:
       | For HN folk, it may not be so obvious from the blog post, but the
       | author of this book is the Nim originator/technical lead/primary
       | author to this day { since before 2008 publicly and I believe
       | 2005..2006 privately }.
        
       | davidkunz wrote:
       | I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other
       | programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction.
       | Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq.
       | You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!
        
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