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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 13:33:40 GMT
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- Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
-
- : There is nothing subtle here, for someone who knows C (which rules Schildt
- : out :-) size_t is _guaranteed_ not to be defined as int, so using "%d"
- : is plain idiotic.
-
- 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. If that happened, these points would be corrected
- before the book was printed.
-
- So why doesn't Osborne get a qualified technical reviewer? People around here
- would do it for free just for the practice!
-
- Scott
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