Author: James Swafford
Date: 17:34:03 09/10/01
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On September 10, 2001 at 18:45:09, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >On September 10, 2001 at 15:29:29, James Swafford wrote: > >>Do you not recommend this book because somebody else doesn't recommend >>this book? > >It's not just a 'recommendation'. Schildt wrote an annotation book about C and >his remark were provably (sp?) full of mistakes and misleadings. While I can't >really recommend a good C/C++ book for beginners (but there's plenty of info >about that on the net) I think that it's important that beginners don't read >books which contain provable wrong information for the sake of simplicity. (or >it will take 10 years afterwards to explain to them why void main(void) is not >ANSI-C, even if Mr Schildt says so) > I already withdrew my recommendation. I wasn't aware of the magnitude or frequency of the mistakes. -- James >Sargon
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