Re: Opinions about a book

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> lawrence.jones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
> 
>> Robert Gamble <rgamble99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> the fact that a significant ****tion of the book is dedicated to C++
>>> and Allegro (a video game library) is a big turn-off for me.  For over
>>> $100 I don't want half the text devoted to something I am not
>>> interested in
>> Also, their treatment of C99, which most people *should* be interested
>> in,  is cursory at best.
> 
> Why should everyone be interested in C99? What's so interesting about
it?

That is one of your stupider posts.

Firstly, C99 is the current official standard. Whether one likes it or 
not,one will encounter code partly or wholly written to conform to it 
and thus one should know about it.

Secondly while *you* may be stuck with tools that only sup****t C89, 
and/or be so amazingly crossplatform that you have to stick to the C89 
subset that's widely available, most of us actually have access to tools 
sup****ting many features of C99 on enough platforms to be useful.

-- 
Mark McIntyre

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