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- From: ell@access2.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Q: Is Microsoft's Visual C & SDK best for developing c progs f W 3.11
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- Date: 4 Apr 1996 22:46:12 GMT
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- Tom Wheeley (tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : In article <4ji9b0$h90@news4.digex.net> ell@access1.digex.net "Ell" writes:
- :
- :> I like both. There is nothing like having an "easy laying" book open in
- :> plain view to guide you, imo. Also the alphabetical oriented table of
- :> contents in MS on-line docs, bites, because things are not group together
- :> logically. Why they do not organize on-line docs as a mirror of the
- :> book docs really escapes me. My .02 cents.
- :
- :That's true. In days gone by when I wrote in VB, there was this `de facto'
- :standard book for writing to the Windows API. That was grouped into logical
- :sections, so I would read up on the functions I wanted, then perhaps wander on
- : reading around it.
-
- Now that I think more about it, they probably alphabetize the on-line docs
- so that you would miss just what you say is good about books. This
- "encourages" people to buy the books.
-
- Elliott
-
- :I learnt far much more by reading the rest of the section like that. Ok, so
- :it is possible with the hyperlinks on the on-line help, but it's not the same.
- :You also get some nice useful bits of prose in books, which you never get in
- :on-line docs.
- :
- : .splitbung
- : --
- : * TQ 1.0 * The 'Just So Quotes'.
- : Jesus rose from the dead and the apostles came unto him saying "How's Elvis"
- :
-