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- From: meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Meikle)
- Subject: Re: Libes book on Obfuscated C
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:08:55 GMT
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- In article <BzCCxI.8BC@demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >Has anybody seen Don Libes' book on Obfuscated C yet, and if so, would
- >they like to comment (or even post a thumbnail review)?
-
- Don Libes
- Obfuscated C & other mysteries
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- 0471578053
- $55.95 in Canada (if you peel off the Wiley Canada sticker, it's $39.95 US)
-
- Forty articles gathered from various sources -- half of them are obfuscated
- C contest stuff, half of them minor useful arcana dealt with in a practical,
- informal way. Did we want more or less obfuscation? :-)
-
- If you like the obfuscated C contest, this really is a lot of fun. And the
- inclusion of useful information means you can justify buying it for work.
- Er, I mean, combines delight & instruction. And, in the tradition of _Life
- with UNIX_, there are a lot of pointers to other sources of information:
- book recommendations, addresses, and lots of references in the articles.
- An all-round nifty piece of work.
-
- Brace for minor grumpiness:
-
- This book is wildly overpriced -- I don't know quite what goes on in the
- heads of those Wiley people. Yeah, they stuck a disk in the back with the
- source, but even with the extra cost/pain that involves for publishers, this
- book should be no more than $30.00 Canadian and $25 US. It looks like the
- technical nature of the material confused them, & they thought they ought to
- jack the price up to technical-book levels. Too bad -- they'd have sold a
- lot more of this at a lower price. I can think of a couple of people
- who might have received this as a Christmas present if it wasn't so strangely
- priced. I'm kind of surprised that publishers are still missing the market
- this widely. Technical market == mass market these days, in a lot of ways,
- & there's not much excuse anymore for artificially inflated prices like this.
- --
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