Message-ID: From: George Kinney To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: Subject: Re: "for" messages Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 09:27:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BF3688.07548036" Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF3688.07548036 Content-Type: text/plain >[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. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF3688.07548036 Content-Type: text/html Subject: Re: "for" messages

>[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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