🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:13:45 -0700, Bradford C. Miller wrote:

> And btw, I am planning on getting a good book to help me out.
> Too bad there appears to be a paucity of JBuilder specific
> books out there. I've found only one so far at two large
> bookstores, and that was JBuilder 3 Unleashed, which I didn't
> particularly like after perusing it.

I don't think you will find a lot of VisualCafe books or Forte books 
either.  The book market is very different when you have a standard 
language like Java, and that is (IMHO) a very good thing.

If you look at Java books that are not specific to any one vendor, you 
will find a large selection, and they will be of higher quality than 
books written to describe how to use a language with a particular tool.  
And if you read these, you will have a clearer idea of what constitutes 
the language and APIs, and what constitutes the tool.  That is also a 
very good thing.

Once those are written, there is not a whole bunch left to describe about 
the tool.  As you have noted, there are a few such books, but most people 
find the accompanying documentation quite adequate for describing the 
tool.  Since there is not a large market, there a not a lot of books.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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