Deitel and Deitel Book...

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:01:03 -0600, Jason Orendorff <jason at jorendorff.com> wrote:
>Sheila King wrote:
>> That's funny. I'm not familiar with the Lippman/Lajoie book, but I
>> have a LOT of C++ texts here at home. And I learned C++ from the Deitel
>> and Deitel book, and thought it was pretty good. Later, when I taught
>> C++ I used it as a reference, although I didn't select it as the text
>> for my course. Most people I know who are familiar with the Deitel
>> and Deitel C++ text think it is very good.
>
>I dislike Deitel & Deitel because of their casual disregard for
>correctness.  I can't open any of their books without finding an error.
>In C++HTP, they illustrate "Circle" as a subclass of "Point". 

This could well be the case in a particular class hierarchy.

> In CHTP,
>they say it's a common programming error to use \n outside of a printf
>statement (it only works in printf statements, they say).

That's an absurd thing to say.

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