On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:04 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > 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.
What's funny is that I went looking for a printed copy of the C standard a few years back and the advice I got was that the cheapest route was to find a used copy of Schildt's "Annotated ANSI C Standard" and ignore the annotations. So it serves at least one useful purpose. Cheers Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
