Recommendations please

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Sun Aug 20 10:47:49 EDT 2000


In article <dnptpsgcpnlf780vehqdkd653sr6r7nbcf at 4ax.com>,
Ben Wolfson  <rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org> wrote:
>On 19 Aug 2000 02:17:18 GMT, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
>>In article <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCGEKGHAAA.tim_one at email.msn.com>,
>>Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>>>[searcher7 at my-deja.com]
>>>>
>>>> Then can you tell me what is the best book for non-programmers that
>>>> you've ever seen? :-)
>>>
>>>"Alice in Wonderland".  It's a delight!  And it has more to teach about
>>>programming than you'll realize until you've been programming for, oh,
>>>about five years <wink>.
>>
>>Yeah, especially when you re-read Humpty Dumpty's speech about names
>>about the same time you start using pointers....
>
>That's actually in "Through the Looking Glass", and I think you mean the
>White Knight.  (He's the one referring to what the name of the song is
>called, what the name of the song is, what the song is called, and what the
>song is.)

Oh, yeah, brain fart.  Thanks!
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