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> I once found a C++ book which doesn't start on classes
> until chapter nine!

I own a "C Primer" which NEVER informs the reader that
C is case-sensitive.  And the only hint I could find
(and I was hunting for one) was a code snippet

void funcname (FILE file)
{
.....

and this was in chapter eleven!

If you're thinking that case-sensitivity is something
the reader already knew... this book was allegedly aimed
at beginners in the MSDOS world!