paul c wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Hi paulc, sorry, I only have the first edition.
>> ...
>
>
> I seem to remember that the first edition had more or less the same
> chapter four. Anyway, the authors have kindly made it publicly
> available at http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/APPXA.pdf
>
> Years ago, I remember the more earnest of IBM 360/370 assembler
> programmers would boast that they made it a practice to re-read
> "Principle of Operations" (known familiarly as "POO"). Hundreds of
> pages even then. Today, I regard the above appendix as a kind of
> minimal equivalent, but I hope it doesn't ever get compared to poo!
>
> Much in TTM is over my head but that doesn't mean I don't recommend it
> to people who are more ambitious than I. Also free is the authors'
> chapter five, from which a careful reader may divine many of their
> secondary motives. These two guys think and write more carefully than
> pretty much any of the other commercial authors, in fact I'd say that's
> also true when they are compared to the majority of academics.
>
> p
>
Another think I like about D&D is that they have the balls to change
their opinions and admit same whereas many commercial authors are
"one-track-horses" who I guess don't like to retract anything because
that will diminish the reputations of their earlier editions.
p
Received on Wed Apr 18 2007 - 19:04:47 CDT
