Adding D Editor Support
Georg Wrede
georg at nospam.org
Fri Jun 20 01:35:41 PDT 2008
Ty Tower wrote:
> Quote from George
> "The other reason is, in textbooks there's a scarcity of dead wood. The
> publisher has to enforce brevity, and this is (from his POV) an
> unobtrusive way to achieve much of it."
>
> Well George if this is good and valid info I will eat my hat.
> Puts the credibility of the rest of your writing in doubt.
Next time you try to publish a book, you'll see. He absolutely hates any
space usage that he doesn't understand the value of.
> Pick up most programming texts and they are crammed with
> "Here is what this chapter will teach you"
> "Here is a load of unnecessary garbage"
> "Here is the guts of it"
> "Here is what you have learnt in this chapter"
> "Here's what we will cover in the next chapter"
>
> and so on , so there is not much care about brevity that I have seen!
I know. Those books are written for (I don't seem to find the word).
I was talking about serious books.
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