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From: George Kinney <GKinney AT nextransport DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Subject: Re: "for" messages
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 09:27:16 -0500
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>[I continue to wonder how authors and publishing houses can dare to
>publish so many books on topics like this, while the target is still
>such a rapidly moving one as C++ has been, until the ANSI comittee
>finally got through to its decision.]

Simple. C++ has been so completely over-hyped that anything with C++ on
the cover will sell. (I'm not flaming C++, but the publishing houses are
well 
aware that most newbies have the mis-conception that C++ is a better version
of C, instead of the different language that it is.)

Besides, this went on before C was standardized as well. For the longest
time, 
*every* compiler was proprietary. 

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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&gt;[I continue to wonder how authors and publishing houses can dare to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&gt;publish so many books on topics like this, while the target is still</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&gt;such a rapidly moving one as C++ has been, until the ANSI comittee</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&gt;finally got through to its decision.]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Simple. C++ has been so completely over-hyped that anything with C++ on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the cover will sell. (I'm not flaming C++, but the publishing houses are well </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">aware that most newbies have the mis-conception that C++ is a better version</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">of C, instead of the different language that it is.)</FONT>
</P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Besides, this went on before C was standardized as well. For the longest time, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">*every* compiler was proprietary. </FONT>
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