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- From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@stdc.demon.co.uk>
- 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: 30 Jan 1996 18:15:16 -0600
- Organization: Demon Internet Limited (personal account)
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- In article <4eardg$etj@solutions.solon.com>,
- Bill McCarthy <actuary@nando.net> wrote:
- >>>> 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".
- > 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.
-
- Unfortunately, the "nearly" does not only mean the missing page of the
- Standard that's been mentioned, but also at least one significant dot.
-
- [The publisher claims the printer did the missing page. If anyone
- mails me (seebs@solon.com) the missing dot, I'll let them know. -mod]
-
- [I mean tell me where it is; my ASCII 0x2e key works fine.]
-
- --
- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler,
- cdwf@cityscape.co.uk (work, preferred) | it will get its revenge.
- clive@stdc.demon.co.uk (home) | - Henry Spencer
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