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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:55:02 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:54:36 +1100, Jason Stokes
<jstok AT bluedog DOT apana DOT org DOT au> wrote:

>From the standpoint of an engineer who is used to evaluating
>*tradeoffs*, might it be arguable that an *on balance* argument
>might be made, to wit, that a Schildt book that has been written
>quite elegantly and accessibly, yet contains the occasional error

"Occasional error" my foot.  I challenge you to find _one_ source code
example in a Schildt book that doesn't contain an error.

`void main()' is an error.

>might not be considered preferable to a book which is scrupulously
>correct, yet written in such Stroustroupish turgidness that all
>first-years who have had the misfortune to be exposed to it defect
>to something nice and easy like media studies?

That's why there's the "For Dummies(R)" series of books from IDG.

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