From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) In-Reply-To: <1e64fa3d0e764df56b9331f6364edc15@coraid.com> References: <1e64fa3d0e764df56b9331f6364edc15@coraid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <2C7BAE17-DA44-403A-8B81-C565E5613261@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] URI Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:04:50 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 42033c40-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Many of them are bigger. Some of them are actually smaller. In a prior life I had to care about .NET, and the O'Reilly books were the only way to navigate the runtime environment. And their VI book is still the best... It's sad how few computer (as opposed to computing science) books are happy addressing an expert audience; writing anything that assumes programming skills and intelligence would probably reduce the audience to much less than a printing :-( Paul On 20-Apr-06, at 8:49 AM, Brantley Coile wrote: > But O'Reilly books are bigger than the rfc's. I want less to read. > > As an aside, have you noticed that Prentice Hall is printing > K&R on thicker paper to make the book look larger? Seems too > many people don't judge a book by it's cover, but by the pound. > >> O'Reilly. >> >> And the quality varies just as much as Cliff's notes. >> >> Paul > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFER7EipJeHo/Fbu1wRAiTkAJwJwDsuvLJyjDluD3Kyl01oHVB3tQCgun8L pKG8enKrsqfB42XYIEGrAxA= =rr3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----