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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 08:11:26 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <8BA8405.02C70020DE.uuout@sourcebbs.com> <4he6hb$ahn@solutions.solon.com> <danpop.826121528@rscernix> <4hmojk$ij2@news.interpath.net>
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- In article <4hmojk$ij2@news.interpath.net>,
- Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems <softbase@mercury.interpath.net> wrote:
- >What Schildt lacks is a good technical review of his books. Most of
- >these things mentioned are finger-check type errors on fairly obscure
- >points (how many architectures have size_t not set to a word?), but
- >which a technical reviewer as an impartial third party could point out
- >to the author.
-
- To be picky, obviously a large part of the problem is that size_t is always
- unsigned. But on my home box, sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(long).
-
- (It's actually an unsigned int, but it could just as well be unsigned long,
- and probably should be.)
-
- >If that happened, these points would be corrected
- >before the book was printed.
-
- I have talked to them about this; I sent them my list of obvious errors, and
- they have not yet decided to offer me any work based on that. Schildt sent me
- a fax explaining why he believes void main is legal by the standard; I wrote
- back, but haven't heard anything about it since...
-
- >So why doesn't Osborne get a qualified technical reviewer? People around here
- >would do it for free just for the practice!
-
- They said they at least will no longer be using the one that did this book,
- but it doesn't look like anything is coming out of it; I'd love to do it,
- especially for money of course, but they don't seem to feel it's worth the
- cost to have a marginally acceptable book.
-
- -s
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