Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!pebbles!ned From: ned@pebbles.cad.mcc.com (Ned Nowotny) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: a word-processor for UNIX Message-ID: <1965@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> Date: 27 Jul 89 23:09:39 GMT References: <20387@adm.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM Reply-To: ned%cad@MCC.COM (CME Ned Nowotny) Organization: MCC CAD Program, Austin, TX Lines: 24 In article <20387@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: =>? From: Jaap Akkerhuis => =>? Also, the =>? publisher might not really want to be held responsible for the final =>? appearance of the publication; it might not be as great as the authors =>? think it is. => =>Do you think anybody (except insiders) really care who the publisher is? =>Can you tell the difference between Prentice Hall and Random House? If =>Addison Wesley produces a dog, do you decide not to buy other books by =>that publisher, or do you decide based on the author and title. Well, I have found that all computer related books published by TAB are worth avoiding. There is a qualitative difference between the general offerings of book publishers. Of course, this is a very coarse-grained selection criteria. When looking at books published by Prentice-Hall and Addison Wesley, for example, you are quite correct that the author and subject (title) are far more important. Ned Nowotny, MCC CAD Program, Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 Ph: (512) 338-3715 ARPA: ned@mcc.com UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!ned ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have ways to make you scream." - Intel advertisement in the June 1989 DDJ.