* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: > | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > I have "The Complete C++ Reference" by Schildt, and it includes a good > | > reference of the standard libraries as well as explaining the > | > languages. I never bought it, but some of my friends said that > | > "Pointers on C" by Ken Reek is good (he's a professor at RIT). > | > | You should not use books by Schildt. > > So I've heard, but after I had the book. > > | See the term bullschildt in the jargon file. > > I just did, on ESR's web site. It's not in the 'jargon' package. > > I've heard a number of people complain about Schildt, but I haven't > yet seen the errors in the book. Can you provide any? (off-list if > you deem it more appropriate there)
I've seen a DOS programming book by Schildt that had void main() all over the place, among the other things. That was 10 years ago, so I (thankfully) can't remember those other things, nor the title of the book. Dima -- I'm going to exit now since you don't want me to replace the printcap. If you change your mind later, run -- magicfilter config script
