From 3221406528665525146 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,4aa07bccd99d934b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: brahms@mindspring.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Suggestions for improving the *Obtuse* Standard Date: 1999/06/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 494235678 Approved: Valentin Bonnard References: <930235591.934.103@news.remarQ.com> X-Original-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:52:20 -0400 Organization: Oak Road Systems X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBVAwUAN3U9vKwEuYhIxRhxAQEU2gIApEyc/h37YpQcZMU/qnh9nQClFgp5nqTo qun/bbszaFWFWhV0v+k/IlR1eDuLgPKM/HNwMJqazhEBSIP4DAjcpw== =Z8T/ X-Server-Date: 26 Jun 1999 20:48:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ alstevens@midifitz.com (Al Stevens) wrote in comp.std.c++: >ANSI also permitted Osborne Books to publish the C document in its entirety >in the Herb Schildt "The Annotated ANSI C Standard" book. The catch was that >ANSI got a big piece of the royalties. And the joke was that the much lower price for the book, as compared to the bare standard, reflected the value subtracted by Schildt's annotations. Clive Feather's review of the book was a classic. Fortunately, it's been saved on the Web at http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/c/schildt.html -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA http://www.mindspring.com/~brahms/ My reply address is correct as is. The courtesy of providing a correct reply address is more important to me than time spent deleting spam. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]