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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 12:43:18 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4gnt96INN205@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <8BA8405.02C70020DE.uuout@sourcebbs.com> <danpop.824685808@rscernix> <4gg4hn$fa8@hobbes.sco.COM> <danpop.824998634@rscernix>
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- In article <danpop.824998634@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
- >In <4gg4hn$fa8@hobbes.sco.COM> md@sco.COM (Michael Davidson) writes:
- >
- >
- >>In article <danpop.824685808@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
- >>[ ... of Herb Schidt ... ]
- >>
- >>>He has also read and even annotated (and even worse, published his
- >>>annotations) the ANSI C standard. It didn't help :-(
- >>
- >>Dan, what leads you to the conclusion that Schildt actually *read*
- >>the ANSI C standard? ;-)
- >
- >Good point! As far as I can tell, that conclusion has absolutely no
- >factual support. It was based on the foolish assumption that you have
- >to read a text before annotating it. Schildt proved that this isn't
- >necessarily true :-)
-
- I don't get it though. What is his motivation? If you are serious enough about
- the standard to want to write a book about it, wouldn't you research your
- subjects far more thoroughly that you would, say, a UseNet posting?
- Or is the book just a way to make money off re-selling (most of) an ISO
- document for less?
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