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Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:09:21 -0500
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> I think you have to write bigger books to compete with the 3kg
> behemoths.  Publishers like wider books because they are more visible
> on bookshelves and at least some of the buying public seem to believe
> that a bigger book is better because `surely in all those pages there
> will be an answer to any question I might have', though that hasn't
> been my experience.  I find that the behemoths are forced to cover all
> topics superficially since they attempt to be encyclopædic by touching
> all topics lightly rather than going into detail on any (or many) of
> them (and admittedly that might require multiple volumes, per The Art
> of Computer Programming).

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