Use of first person in a book

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Thu Oct 8 12:55:47 PDT 2009


"Jeremie Pelletier" <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hal5r3$t3b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> I think I need to give a read to that book, although I've heard it's 
>> rather controversial due to the gratuitous sexual references.
>>
>
> Controversy is sometimes good for its free publicity. Besides if people 
> get offended by what they read, its their own fault, not the author's.

To this day, I still remember this one old C++ book I read that talked about 
robot dogs (or maybe it was only the illustration on the cover) and 
"Profound Object Oriented Programming", POOP. Lack of dryness can make a 
huge improvement in readability.





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