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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 18:31:25 -0700
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829687209@schonberg> <4l2rvoINN7os@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <01bb2dd1.53b4e740$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost>
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- In article <01bb2dd1.53b4e740$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost>,
- Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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- >You can get 9899 for 30 bucks at a bookstore. Herbert Schildt wrote an
- >annotated version, much more readable than the standard alone. And $30 is
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- More readable? The standard is presented as-is, and his annotations are
- useless. (read the comp.lang.c FAQ).
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- >cheap for computer books.
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- You can't grep a book, and $30 doesn't even remotely approximate the concept of
- freeware.
-
- >And I'm sure your suggestion has already been done.
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- Is that so? If you are sure, it means you know of someone who pulled it off.
- Care to drop any pointers?
-