Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: ARM - where and when? Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 22:23:08 GMT References: <1991Jan7.180831.8592@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <11773@alice.att.com> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 15 In-reply-to: bs@alice.att.com's message of 8 Jan 91 12:52:34 GMT >>>>> On 8 Jan 91 12:52:34 GMT, bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) said: Bjarne> You should have been able to get a copy of the ARM from or Bjarne> through your local bookstore at any time since May'90. When I Bjarne> lived in Denmark, I ordered all my major books from an English Bjarne> bookstore, though, to avoid getting hit by the delays and Bjarne> exhorbitant prices imposed by the local academic bookstores. I picked up a copy of the ARM in the local university bookstore for around $54. Considering the current state of the US dollars, it's not *that* bad -- you can't really expect the price to drop as fast as the dollar :-) Yes, I could probably have saved a few dollars, but it isn't really worth the trouble. /Lars