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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
Date: 22 Aug 1995 04:52:26 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.95Aug21215230@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In-reply-to: brockman@netcom.com's message of Sun, 20 Aug 1995 06:29:45 GMT
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In article <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> brockman@netcom.com (daniel brockman) writes:
In article <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> psilocyn@ix.netcom.com (Jeff W. ) writes:
>I've been trying to learn C++ on my own with the online books that come
>with Borland C++ 4.5, but I'm having trouble understanding them. So I
C++ is philosophically unsound. it is nonsense. no one can understand
nonsense. Don't worry about it.
Maybe I've cracked? I understand (well written) C++ just fine.
[...]
>ks, are these good? Thanks. Ooops, one more thing, should I even
>bother to learn C?
perhaps for archaeological interest. its dead, though.
It is??? All us programmers at Microsoft, writing millions of lines
of brand new C and C++ code for new commercial software, which
millions of dollars of potential money are staked on, must certainly
have missed the announcement! Thanks for enlightening me... I'll let
my boss know right away to go back and search the archives for that
news, so we can get our development efforts back on track!
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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