Rhodri James wrote:
On 09/10/17 20:06, Stefan Ram wrote:
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> writes:
At various stages of education, we teach many lies-to-children,
including:
Many of those lies can be perfectly true in some sense.
I pick some examples:
Another noun phrase with "lie" is "white lie".
In his book about programming, Bjarne Stroustrup writes:
|We try hard to avoid "white lies"; that is, we refrain from
|oversimplified explanations that are clear and easy to
|understand, but not true in the context of real languages and
|real problems.
That would go a long way to explaining why I tried and failed to learn
C++ three times from Stroustrup's books.
He is surely one of the best authors in computer science (at least based
upon "The C++ Programming Language", 3rd ed.). He indicates that he
assumes that the reader has some experience developing serious
software. Beazley's, "Python: Essential Reference" is one of the best
books I've seen since. It doesn't have the same depth, but it (too)
provides articulate answers, head-on. Both books have 5-star rankings on
Amazon.com. That doesn't mean that either of them is right for
everybody. Come back to Stroustrup's book "after" you learn C++
somewhere else, and maybe you'll enjoy it more.
Bill
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