Python Books for 2002
Cameron Laird
claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Thu Apr 5 14:44:01 EDT 2001
In article <9ai305$so3$1 at panix2.panix.com>, Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> wrote:
>In article <03BA7FF29A7003C0.58A7996FD1867709.07757E6DB814C605 at lp.airnews.net>,
>Cameron Laird <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>Here's a hazard of concision: it abbreviates sometimes to confusion.
>>I think a "40 page 'python in depth' treatise" would be *snapped up*
>>at retail, even at $10 or 20 US. The market to which Fredrik is
>>apparently referring is that of either the publishers or distributors,
>>who find this sort of innovation anathema.
>
>Ever since I saw _Borland C++ for Dummies_, I have concluded that
>*nothing* is truly anathema to computer book publishers.
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Incidentally, as no one else has called me on this, I
need to make it explicit: my own posting abbreviated.
It would be easy to conclude from what I'd written that
I can only whine about publishers, and lump them all in
the same dark kettle. I do recognize several are inno-
vative, and a few courageous. I generalized.
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Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>
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