On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Bryan Scaringe wrote: -Here are some books to avoid: - C: The Complete Reference, by Herbert Schlidt - This is from an old message I received on linux-c-programming: - This guy Schildt is /famous/ for his verrrry bad, - amateurish code. This example is typical. Use Deja-News - and go through comp.lang.c for a few hundred choice - flames of his books. The kindest discription of Schildt is - "inexcusably and inexplicably sloppy." that's a thick paperback with a reddish cover isn't it? there's one in our library with "VERY POORLY WRITTEN, DO NOT USE" scribbled inside the cover. - C++ By Example: - This was my first C++ Book. It is FILLED with typos, - and the code examples are filled with logic errors. sure i've seen this too, it's worrying when you find just _one_ error in some code (cos how many more are there?) whatever book you get make sure it has readable fonts for program code. I.E 0 and O look DIFFERENT and 1 and I look DIFFERENT (i spent hours typing in a damn pascal program only to find i'd typed 'i' instead of 1, the compiler didn't pick the error up because there was also a variable called 'i'!) - -- >> I Like England Just Fine, But I Ain't Eating Any Of That Beef << << MailTo: root <at> kermit "dot" globalnet /dot\ co 'dot' uk >> >> De Chelonian Mobile <<