[rescue] looking for used old-school UNIX books

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sun Aug 18 21:14:13 CDT 2002


On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 05:58:38PM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> Hey, I glanced through "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell the other day.
> Good stuff, not as dated I would have expected.  Surprise, surprise...it's
> a MS Press book!

The best MS Press book I've seen so far is "Code" by Petzold.  Grounds-up
introduction to how computers work - and not a bit of MS-ism in it!  I'm
surprised they let him publish without mentioning Windows.. 8-)

Bill

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas



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