Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:53:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:53:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> ...
> > IMO, you can avoid anything printed by Prentice Hall except stuff
> > written by W. Richard Stevens.
>
> I think that's ill informed advice. Some of the best books on informatics
> are from them, like:
>
> A discipline of programming, by Edgard Dijkstra
>
> Operating Systems, by Tanenbaum
>
> Object Oriented Software Construction, by Meyer
>
> Maybe in recent years their catalogue has watered down, I don't know,
> but at least they used to be top notch.
Please excuse my hyperbole; perhaps PH has more to offer than Stevens.
However, I must say that (again IMO) their recent offerings are not
high on _my_ wish list (and I buy a lot of books every year). YMMV.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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