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From: pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)
Subject: Re: Repost of the Reid Report #12; CS1 languages
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In article <19950713T132324Z@naggum.no> erik@naggum.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
>[Bill Richter]
>
>|   Uh, health?  Do you have any idea how many Calculus textbooks are
>|   coming out, all clones of each other, dead weight to students and
>|   teachers alike?
>
>one can probably measure the degree to which something is _not_ understood
>by how many (text)books are published on it.
>

>Ada 95 is barely half a year old.  I know of at least one new edition of a
>previously solid Ada textbook coming out, updated to Ada 95.  I have heard
>that proposals have been submitted to my publisher on Ada 95 books, but I
>don't have any recent information on their fate.  in any case, there are
>authors out there working on Ada 95 books.  don't expect them to want to
>publish books with 24-point print on very heavy paper that fills up four
>inches each in the bookshop's shelves so it stands out to the unknowing
>readers, such as C++ is best known for in the book market.
>

I am talking about textbooks, and more specifically CS1 textbooks.
-- 
  Richard E. Pattis                  "When debugging, a novice programmer
  Looking for a Job		      inserts corrective code; an
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