Hal Ashburner wrote:

> Erik,
> When are you going to sign the copy of the book I learned C from?

You know the deal. You bring the book and I'll sign it.

Someone told me I will be at SLUG this Firday :-).

> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672315971/102-2858012-6274528?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance
> And the other advice from Erik on this list about learning C.
> Get a book that is not specific to an OS or architecture.
> Actually, that'd make a good dedication ;-)

Or a quote:

   "Get a book that is not specific to an OS or architecture."
    -- Erik, (co-)author of "C for Linux Programming in 21 days.

Similar in some ways to:

    "Anyone who quotes me in their .sig is an idiot."
    -- Rusty Russell

Erik
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  Erik de Castro Lopo
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C++ is a siren song. It *looks* like a HLL in which you ought 
to be able to write an application, but it really isn't."
-- Alain Picard (comp.lang.lisp)
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