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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: College Software Texts Found To Teach Insecure Coding
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On 28 Lip, 16:04, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> > Yes, you are right that there exist crappy books about some popular
> > programming languages/technologies/whatever - but there is nothing
> > spectacular in this fact.
>
> Spectacular is the ratio of the crap to the signal.

Which is still not spectacular at all if you take into account the
acceptance criteria for publication. Basically, books are reviewed
*after* they are published, not before (that's why there are so many
"book review" websites - they should just not exist at all!).

> The problem is - what to expect from a sample of books on IT? The answer,
> read from the statistics, is - you should expect crap. I find it
> spectacular, because it shows who is the average reader...

And again, I agree with you, but I still don't find anything
spectacular in it if you take into account that books form a regular
commercial market. Are you surprised that the majority of music is a
crap as well? It is just a result of its wide commercialization.
Which, btw, has its bright sides as well.

Oh well - we went off topic again. ;-)

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com