Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?

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From: Dave Griffiths
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 11:32

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In article <23185@venera.isi.edu> woolf@isi.edu (Suzanne Woolf) writes:
>But, agreed that this book isn't really for experts.  It probably
>doesn't have too much to say to someone with extensive experience
>writing code in multiple languages, who already understands OOP and
>GUI principles, and who can spend a lot of time reading the reference
>documentation and writing code-experiments.  But any of us
>less-advanced folk can probably learn a lot from the book.
>

I'll buy the book if, after reading it, you have a clear idea of why the 
functionality of a Button is split between two classes (Button and 
ButtonCell) rather than one. The philosophy behind the appkit heirarchy is 
not well explained in the NeXT documentation.

Dave Griffiths

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From: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
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