[Chicago] book for review: Standard Lib
Martin Maney
maney at two14.net
Sun Jul 3 18:20:55 CEST 2011
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 10:51:15AM -0500, Adam Jenkins wrote:
> It's hard to review a reference book. You can't "read" it. It must be
> used in practice for a while to see if it measures up.
Then it even simpler: Paper books are for reading. Paper reference
books are just obsolete.
But I wanted to paraphrase Dorothy Parker, or whichever Algonquin wit
actually coined that one - it's hard to pin it down.
--
Hebb's dictum: If it isn't worth doing, it isn't worth doing well.
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