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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have code from Doug Young's book?
Keywords: Lighten up!
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Date: 13 Jul 89 16:56:03 GMT
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< Incidently, I'd really appreciate any bug reports, as well as reports of 
< mistakes in the text, inaccuracies, typos, or whatever, if anyone takes 
< the time. I'll try to correct these in a later printing.
<

 
< You can't be serious?  There are so many typo's and misspellings in this
< book.  I realize that time to market was important, but the number of 
< typos in this book is staggering.  For starters how about the front cover.
< 

[ some nits about the title deleted ]

< 
< I just glanced through the book (I don't have much need for a tutorial on Xt :-)
< and the layout seems very nice, but the number of typo's is about one per page
< and seriously detracts from the book.

Compared to the abysmal documentation provided with the Xt Intrinsics,
this book is a godsend!  Reading the Xt Intrinsics documentation is like reading
a mathematical proof.  As a reference it may be excellent, but until
one knows how to use them, it is impossible to figure out how to tie it
all together.
 
There are *NO* examples of use of the widgets,
only the formal definitions.  I realize that writing good documentation
is *VERY* hard, but until Doug Young's book came out, I have not gotten
very far using widgets even with the MANY examples of programs that exist.

< 
< Just thought you might like to know...
< 

I hope you have e-mailed Doug with the *SPECIFIC* typos that you found
"one per page".

_____________________________________
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory