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Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
Date: 15 Sep 1995 10:57:50 -0400
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In <439l83$dqq@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss)
writes:

> My point?  If you remember what this thread was about you wouldn't flood

> the net with such garbage as talking about how great NetBSD is.  I know 
> its good, I run FreeBSD on my server at home.  This thread was just 
> discussing (originally) why C is better than C++ and if you are going to

> use C++, you might as well use Perl.  I had a problem with that.  Why 
> don't you go read before you speak!

If this thread was originally discussing why C is better than C++ why is
it entitled "Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books"?

I, too, am looking for such books, and I feel bound to say that I found
your contribution less than illuminating on this point.

Paul Magnussen