Lan Barnes wrote: >.. > This leads me to another beef. Most of my programming books have > examples that are too sophisticated and abstracted to give me a clear > understanding of the simple use of a function, procedure, or widget. I > would be fine if the second or third example were somewhat abstracted, > but I believe the first example should be simple, direct, even crude. > Alas, frequently not so.
That's one of my favorite gripes too! I accuse authors -- in attempting to show _realistic_ examples (which usually aren't very useful to _me_) -- of sadly missing the opportunity to explain the purpose and use of something sufficiently clearly that any competent practitioner can adapt it to his use. In some cases, I suppose the thing they are trying to explain has such a poor design model or API that a simple example is impossible. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
