Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Review
Message-ID: <1939@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 20:09:49 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.1939
Posted: Mon Jan 19 20:09:49 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Jan-87 22:27:33 EST
References: <2313@brl-adm.ARPA> <1462@blia.BLI.COM>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
Lines: 16

In article <1462@blia.BLI.COM> forrest@blia.UUCP writes:
>I do freelance technical reviewing for several publishers and
>have some feel for what goes into such reviews. I think the major
>reason for your surprise is because the reviewer that examined
>your book (not me, by the way) may have been including
>people who program in C on micros in his comments. These people
>don't always have the same level of experience as Unix (or VMS)
>hackers.

Beware of overgeneralization!  We have quite a few people who program in C
on micros, and the comments made by the reviewer certainly don't apply to
them.  Now, if he had said "amateur" instead of "professional", *some* of
those statements might have been on target.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108