Re: spinoza programming language status report (or, disruptive technology is always late)

spinoza1111 said:

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You are doing a public service if and only if people cannot be the
judge of the material presented by the potential cad-bounder-fraud for
themselves, and need be told by insiders such as Clive Feather that
the man's a fraud.

Nobody, least of all Clive Feather, has claimed that Schildt is a fraud. To
point out mistakes in a book is not the same thing as to accuse its author
of fraud.

Therefore, if you occupy yourself with the failings of a single man,

That's a big if. On Usenet, I discuss computer programming in general and C
programming in particular. In the course of such discussions, I observe
and discuss a great deal of erroneous material. Although Schildt's C books
fail to demonstrate that he knows the language sufficiently well to write
good books about it, there are a great many C programmers who know even
less about C than he does.

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The vilest man tries to gain notoriety by horse-leeching and secretary-
birding of this nature. Clive Feather is such a horse leech and
secretary bird, jealous of fame and a thief of reputation.

Wrong. Clive Feather is an expert on the C language.

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know it's junk if I haven't read it? (Answering this question is left as a
simple exercise for the reader.)>

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