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From: "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)
Date: 26 Nov 2024 21:38:01 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vi5f3p$2m59$1@gal.iecc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240930191216.tIpea9lo@steffen%sdaoden.eu> <CAKH6PiUS7RjkCyuYREFk4Li+aORaEZ_Vu7Dg1nnsFuHJF+mqog@mail.gmail.com> <CAEoi9W46LRBBxQ22kM8kmvqHeTetXkp=jfUeDC+qu0kbvv+swA@mail.gmail.com> <CAEoi9W4Y5C+m4eVgQN2v79tLtY0Fq9nyUZ-b0NYsVw=tVpmfRA@mail.gmail.com>

According to Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>:
>> And what about Hollub?
>
>Pretty much the same thing.
>
>> A long time ago I came across and seemed to think some of his earlier books (on C) were ok.
>
>Yeah.  He wrote a book about compilers, but as near as I can tell,
>it's mostly material regurgitated from the Dragon Book, just a
>different presentation, and a less academic focus.

It was terrible because none of the code worked.  There was a fat list of errata
that fixed some of them but it was more trouble than it was worh.

R's,
John
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-26 21:38 UTC|newest]

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2024-10-01 13:20               ` [COFF] Shadowing variables in Go Ralph Corderoy
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2024-11-22  1:53           ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum) Dan Cross
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2024-11-26 19:51               ` Dan Cross
2024-11-26 20:15                 ` Larry McVoy
2024-11-27  1:03                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-11-26 21:38                 ` John Levine [this message]
2024-11-26 21:37 [COFF] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-11-27  8:50 ` [COFF] " Dan Cross
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2024-09-30 20:12 ` Jim Capp
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2024-09-30 15:49     ` Paul Winalski
2024-09-30 17:59       ` Larry McVoy
2024-09-30 18:08         ` Dan Cross
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2024-10-01 16:40       ` Paul Winalski
2024-10-01 19:08         ` arnold
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2024-10-01 15:08                 ` Stuff Received
2024-10-01 16:49           ` Paul Winalski
2024-10-04  3:57         ` Adam Thornton

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