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From: rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: new OO books
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Date: 11 Nov 89 01:32:12 GMT
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/* Written  7:04 pm  Nov  9, 1989 by rick@zeek.UUCP comp.lang.smalltalk */
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> I just received the mailing for a CS book club that I belong to,
> and two new OO books are among the featured selections this month.
>
> _Object-Oriented Environment in C++_ David Hu, Oct 89 MIS Press

I bought the above book on OOPSLA'89 for $45 (book+diskette) and gave it
away the second day.  In my opinion, through out the whole book, only the
title sounds attractive.  About half of the book is irrelevant to C++ library
(intro on Smalltalk and Objective-C, C++, etc.).  And the other half is trivial
C++ code, that you can write yourself after reading Stroustrup's C++ book.
Besides, the code is useless (should I say re-useless? :-).  The menu, pane,
and other modules can only do what's shown in the book.  If you are careful
enough looking at the pictures in the book, you will know what I mean.
In one sentence, everything is made up for selling the book!

-Ron Chen @ Department of Computer Science
            University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
            rchen@cs.uiuc.edu