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From: wilber@aludra.usc.edu (John Wilber)
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Subject: Re: Textbook for Intro. Comp. Theory course
Summary: Oxymorons
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Date: 17 Sep 90 20:28:44 GMT
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In article <392sis-a@massey.ac.nz> C.Eagle@massey.ac.nz writes:

>I  have been asked  to  survey netters  on textbooks  for  a course on
>introductory computer  theory.

As far as I have been able to tell, the concept of a "good" textbook on 
"computer theory" is an oxymoron.  Since such books are invariably
written by computer science theoreticians and computer science theoreticians 
invariably know almost nothing about computers (as one would expect 
from mathematicians) the textbooks I have seen have all been dismally
uninformed about the realities of computer technology (and even good
theory for that matter).