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- From: actuary@nando.net (Bill McCarthy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time the C community *did* something about bad books.
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 09:19:12 -0600
- Organization: News & Observer Public Access
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- In <4e7ttq$su@solutions.solon.com>,
- wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
-
- >> >I call your attention to Schildt's "C: The Complete Reference". A
- >....
- >> There is a long crit of this book, with many errors listed, at:
- >> http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/tutorial/ten-commandments/schildt.html
- >
- >That is Clive Feather's review of "The Annotated ANSI C Standard",
- >also by Schildt, not of "C: The Complete Reference".
-
- Lars,
-
- I saw Feather's review. I'm looking for a copy of the standard. It's
- quoted here quite a bit, but I don't want to pay hundreds for it from
- the only legal source. I read that Schildt's "The Annotated ANSI C
- Standard" contains nearly the entire standard, word for word.
-
- Isn't this the best bargain for obtaining a copy of the standard?
- One can always ignore the annotations by Schildt.
-
- [The publisher claims that the printer botched the missing page, but that
- more recent printings should have it, at which point, it's missing only
- some small stuff. I agree that it's a good deal, but take the time to
- write them and complain about inaccurate annotations. -mod]
-
- Bill McCarthy
- actuary@nando.net
- Wendell, NC USA
-