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. > > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° "Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- Maj. Korben Dallas Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
