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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/14
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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:33:53 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:

>Well hard to know what is unreasonable. These days,
>typical text books cost $70, so the IEEE standard price
>is not that out of line.

hmm, that comes out at around 45 quid, about double the price of the 
haskell book i bought for my course and 50% more than the database
book (the most expensive one of the 6 or so I have). OTOH I live in
Glasgow, where people are generally poorer than average but also has
one of the highest literacy rates in the UK so this might be skewed
somewhat. Hell, the O'Reilly POSIX books for C doen't cost that much.

>Of course I agree all standards should be freely
>available, I think it is appalling that they are not,

Quite. Especially in these days when everybody and their CEO is trying
to be more Open. ;)

- Aidan (does Windows source code cause insanity when viewed? Find out
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