On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:44:38 -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Thorsten Haude:
>>
>> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15):
>> >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment.
>>
>> Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but
>> now it's obsolete.
>
> I imagine you have the same opinion of Shakespeare? Cicero,
> Aristotle, etc., etc. Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't
> mean it's obsolete. K&P is definitely not obsolete.
Rob Pike, commenting on X:
"I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck."
And, until the recent advent of fast CPUs, he was dead right, of course.
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....................paul
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enough hammer.
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