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On 22 Lip, 21:39, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> - The Complete Reference: C 4th ed. (Osbourne)
> - Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++ (O'Reilly)
> - C Primer Plus, Third Edition (SAMS)
> - C in a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
> - Introduction to Java Programming, 7th Edition (Pearson Prentice
> Hall)
> - Beginning Ruby: from Novice to Professional (Apress)
> - Beginning ASP Databases (Wrox)
>
> So guess which language doesn't appear in the above list?

In order to be on the above list, the language needs to satisfy two
conditions:

1. It has to be popular enough for somebody to justify *writing* a
book about it (hint: writing a book has to generate income).

2. It has to be popular enough for somebody to justify *reading* a
book, so that errors can be found.

So guess which language isn't popular enough to satisfy them both.


Yes, you are right that there exist crappy books about some popular
programming languages/technologies/whatever - but there is nothing
spectacular in this fact. It is just the nature of big statistic
samples.

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