On 2010-11-09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <slrnidhsbg.g2d.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote: >> Not so much turgidity as being WRONG. Consistently and often.
> Wow. And the guy???s written so many books; how does he get away with it? No one knows or cares. I don't mean "no one knows or cares how he gets away with it"; I mean "no one knows or cares that he's awful". The publisher doesn't care whether the books are accurate, as long as they sell, and most reviewers don't read closely enough to realize he's full of crap. In particular, he's very good at making up complications from whole cloth which aren't really problems, and then offering "solutions" which show people a clever trick to work around the problem. (e.g., his elaborate revelations about how to use feof() in C to work around his failure to understand how EOF works.) -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
