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From: Lawrence Kirby <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 96 21:00:17 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] "Dan Pop" writes:

>In <[e-mail]> Lawrence Kirby <[e-mail]>
> writes:
>
>>I'll stress again that I'm only commenting on Schildt's books about C.
>>Given a subject he understands he could write an excellent book (and
>>probably already has).
>
>That is, assuming that such a subject exists.

I think Schildt has some talent - he clearly has a writing style that many
people like. He just never learnt C in adequate depth to write a book on
it. "C the Complete reference" covers topics other than the C language
itself and he seems competent enough on most of those.

There was a C programming series in UK Computer Shopper a year or 2 back
which made Scildt's books look positively accurate. :-) or should I :-(
It was like distilling all the language related misconceptions found in
comp.lang.c together.

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