From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,83242c369c5dc9b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John McCormick Subject: Re: Book REview Date: 1996/05/09 Message-ID: <01I4HZQSOU368ZOZ71@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 153895475 sender: Ada programming language comments: cc: ok@GOANNA.CS.RMIT.EDU.AU, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu x-vms-to: IN%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NoDak.EDU" x-vms-cc: IN%"ok@GOANNA.CS.RMIT.EDU.AU", MIKE x-envelope-to: INFO-ADA@VM1.NoDak.EDU organization: SUNY at Plattsburgh, New York, USA mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >The thing that still has me angry is that at one level it _isn't_ (or >isn't meant as) a bad review of the "World 3" book. It's really an >angry review of the _proofreading_ and _review_ processes. How come >such a well planned book by such great authors ended up with a flawed >result? In defense of Mike (but NOT of Addison-Wesley) I'd like to say that many errors are out of the control of the author, editors, and reviewers. I supplied my publisher with disks containing all the final text and programs for my CS2 book: _Ada Plus Data Structures: An Object-Based Approach_, 1996. The typesetter was unable to read one of my chapter files. Rather than request another copy from me, they decided to key in the chapter from the hardcopy. Needless to say I spent weeks combing the page proofs correcting all of the errors introduced. Thank goodness that I was able to use the page proofs for this chapter in my class so I had many more pairs of eyes helping with the checking. It is bad enough to make one think about giving up textbook authoring. John =========================================================================== = = = Moving this summer to the University of Northern Iowa = = = = John W. McCormick, Professor Phone (518) 564-2785 = = Computer Science Department FAX (518) 564-3333 = = State University of New York mccormjw@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu = = Plattsburgh, NY 12901 mccormjw@snyplava.bitnet = = USA = = SUNY Plattsburgh = = where = = Computers + Model Railroading = Digitally Controlled Trains = = = = * * * = = * = = * = = ## ## T = = ######_########_########_#####_#########- = = o o o o o o o o oo OOOO oo\ = ===========================================================================