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From: loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss)
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Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
Date: 17 Sep 1995 18:52:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
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In <43c49e$c22@newsbf02.news.aol.com> magiconinc@aol.com (MagiconInc) writes:

>In <439l83$dqq@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss)
>writes:

>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.

Well, then get "C for dummies" or "C++ for dummies."  If all of you out 
there don't know how to go to your local bookstore and just sit and read 
the computer books and figure out which one is best for you, you have no 
right to even exist on the internet.

It takes brains to be a programmer and apparently none of you have any.