Re: Some HDC questions

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:29

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"UO" <uo@uott> wrote:

>It's quite weird that a textbook which is considered as "classic" or "best" 
>by many people, can contain so arguable material.

Petzold (at least the earliest editions) were the best purely by dint of
being pretty much the *only* books with the requisite information in.
They were lousy so far as the quality of their C++ went, but they did
give examples which worked, even if the results were not production code
quality. 

(Once you've got something which makes the APIs work, it's your job to
see how it works, and then produce the good stuff. Not everyone did ...)

Alan Bellingham
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