C Programming
Lyvim Xaphir
knightmerc at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 1 15:59:11 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 06:54 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:05:46AM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > We'll have to agree to disagree. Forward references arent a problem as
> > long as the topics are taken care of, I havent' seen a case where they
> > havent been. Also the explanations that I've seen are neither obtuse
> > nor needlessly confusing. In any case this is a very poor complaint for
> > the book; for some reason you seem to be grasping at straws.
>
> It's a perfectly valid complaint -- the writing style used in a book is very
> important. You can call it straws if you want! And if you *like* your books
> to be read like choose-your-own adventures, where you flip back and forth to
> determine what's going on, okay, but there's other, better C books where you
> don't have to do that.
Writing style is very important indeed, AAMOF I happen to concern myself
with it on a regular basis. Again, you points are impotent in the
respect that they have no teeth; you need to add dentures. The problem
that I have is with people that offer no solutions but yet complain
about offered solutions endlessly; it seems to be some sort of present
day liberal-borne viral mental meme. The bottom line is that the book
presents structured programming to beginners in a step by step format,
and there's none of this choose-your-own propaganda that you spout
there. I've been thru a slew of C books and this one is one of the
better ones, period dot.
>
> > > Additionally, since it's a textbook, it comes with the ridiculous price of
> > > $80 or more.
> > Well you should have stopped with the first paragraph, now you're
> > displaying rank propaganda.
> > http://product.half.ebay.com/C-How-to-Program_W0QQprZ2473666QQtgZinfo
>
> Uh, it's not "rank propaganda" just because you can find it used for less.
> The full, new price is indeed over $80. (In fact, it's more like $100.)
>
> What's with the aggression, here?
You call this aggression? I guess maybe then I should apologize for
posting factual data concerning the actual real world price of the book,
which btw can be had for 29 bucks off the link above, notwithstanding
your 100$ propaganda. But I wont. If you post false propaganda on a
technical list you should expect for that propaganda to be proven false.
That's not aggression, that's just a fact.
>
>
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> Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>
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>
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