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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d3d7bb776ff0b28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.velia.net!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: College Software Texts Found To Teach Insecure Coding Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <6556536f-759d-4ad0-ba28-91c030981b5b@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <8272e5f6-3f23-4639-9376-423853947a65@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:04:21 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jul 2008 16:04:21 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: af8fe4b0.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=cAHRd[cn:0C74okIm;?DS@4IUK\BH3YBmiVRn^]M0kEDNcfSJ;bb[EFCTGGVUmh?DLK[5LiR>kgBBJ=_CQ[WKfI X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1363 Date: 2008-07-28T16:04:21+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:23:40 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak 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. > It is just the nature of big statistic samples. Nope. Bigger samples behave more close to the expectation, i.e. the nature of is exactly reverse. 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... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de