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Old Jul 24th, 2006, 2:22 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Narue
Some people swear by Herby, and I will admit that he's gotten better over the years, but I would avoid books by authors who are represented negatively in common community jargon if I were you.
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A confident, but incorrect, statement about a programming language. This immortalizes a very bad book about C, Herbert Schildt's C - The Complete Reference. One reviewer commented “The naive errors in this book would be embarrassing even in a programming assignment turned in by a computer science college sophomore.”
Damn.
I have just reserved the book C - The Complete Reference at the library. Maybe I shall not read it.
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