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From: Frank Nichols <frank_nichols-contractor@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com>
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Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
Date: 20 Sep 1995 17:20:24 GMT
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loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) wrote:
>Well, then get "C for dummies" or "C++ for dummies."  If all of you out 
>there don't know how to go to your local bookstore and just sit and read 
>the computer books and figure out which one is best for you, you have no 
>right to even exist on the internet.

So then let me get this straight. If I want to buy a car I should go to every dealer, take every car for a two week test drive and d=
etermine which car is best made, most reliable, etc. etc.

Frank N
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