In message <slrnidhcns.9m6.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-11-09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> > wrote: > >> In message <mailman.697.1289067607.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis >> Lee Bieber wrote: >>> >>> Have you ever looked at the reference manual for Ada? > >> Or even worse, the annotated reference. I thought annotations were >> supposed to clarify things; in this case they seemed to have the opposite >> effect... > > Clearly, you've never seen Schildt's infamous "Annotated ANSI C Standard". There absolutely no chance (or at least no way I can imagine) that anyone could annotate a concise language like C up to the level of turgidity of the Ada spec. Hang on, is this Herb Schildt? I bought a couple of his books, back when I was trying to get to grips with C++ (I have the edition of “C++ The Complete Reference” which proudly proclaims it “Covers the New International Standard for C+”). Not as useful as I thought they would be; I ended up referring to the libstdc++ sources to clarify things. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
