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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:56:36 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4gfbr4$280@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4f5h5t$f13@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4g1bgf$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <4g95c4$bhp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
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- In article <4g95c4$bhp@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>,
- Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:
- >(Actually, I am being generous about C. Most C textbooks contain serious
- >factual errors, so if it is so easy to learn the language fully, why don't
- >the authors get their books right?)
-
- Mostly because they're incompetent. C is not a fast-moving target, but it has
- moved some. Many of the foolish things that have been said probably were true
- once, and the remainder are people who naively assume that testing something
- tells you whether or not it works. :)
-
- I have seen several decent books. Between _The C Programming Language_
- and _C Traps and Pitfalls_, I see no serious issues.
-
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