From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Way off topic - for pressed flower fans only Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:14:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f5b81ac4-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Should this get past the moderators (and if it does, I think we should all agree that they are not doing their job properly), I thought that the results of a survey concerning the suitability of various computing books for pressing flowers, carried out after perhaps just one gin and tonic too many, might be of interest to all members of the group with an interest in pressing flowers. [Moderator's note: I do detect a tenuous link to articles by yourself and Rob Pike in the "Plan 9 versus CORBA?" thread. And a touch of levity doesn't go amiss. That's enough for approval!] Winner: Appleman, "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API", 2.4kg Runner-up: Balena, "Programming Visual Basic 6.0, 2.2kg Honourable mentions: Stroustrup, C++ Programming Language Special Edition: 1.82kg Vinoski & Heming, Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, 1.66kg McConnell, Code Complete, 1.49 kg Must try harder: Kernighan & Pike, The Unix Programming Environment, 0.57kg Kernighan & Pike, Practice of Programming, 0.50kg Kernighan & Ritchie, C Programming Language, 2nd edition, 0.40kg Clear loser: Kernighan & Plauger, Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition, 0.24kg All in all, a clear demonstration of the superiority of the Visual Basic/Windows world.