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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 18:07:27 GMT
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- Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- : I don't get it though. What is his motivation?
-
- Herb Schildt seems to truly love C and want to help people learn it and
- be an advocate for the language and all, but his enthusiasm doesn't
- quite cover for some of his lapses in correctness. You know which
- road they paved with good intentions. Other than using void main
- and a few other things, he isn't that bad, and his books are
- certainly better than a lot of the crap I've read. Believe me,
- there's a lot worse than Herb out there.
-
- Still and all, he does have the only book I've ever seen with a
- recursive descent parser and a C interpreter in full source code form,
- and since I'm writing a parser myself for another language that starts
- with C and ends with OBOL, I'm kind of happy to have his book to see
- how interpreters are written.
-
- Scott
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-