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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: C Programming Book
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 00:53:22 GMT
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- In article <4djmvm$jji@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>
- wo10@cornell.edu "Warren Ouyang" writes:
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- >>> Avoid books by H.SCHILDT.
- >>Amen!
- >>
- >
- >Was just wondering why avoid books by Schildt? I recently skimmed through his
- >book called TurboC/C++, and it seems reasonably good as a reference...
-
- Because he is factually highly inaccurate as far as the C language goes -
- he has clearly never learnt it properly, or understood it in any depth. Many
- of the things he writes may be true for a specific C implementation but not
- for the language in general (that may not be so bad for a book called "Turbo
- C/C++" but it is very bad for books called "C The Complete Reference" and
- "The Annotated ANSI C Standard"). However he also writes many things that are
- just plain wrong as far as C is concerned on any implementation.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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