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Subject: Re: Lions book
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 03:22:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 03:22:49 1987
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Reply-To: brunner@sri-spam.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner)
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John's book is quite useful to me now, and has been so for several years.
It has a very fine cross reference, describes an interesting and well
understood implementation, and fits in a flat briefcase. It is complete.

Bach's book too is quite useful, written as a text book. It assumes that
its readers do have access to SysV sources. This costs money, as someone
has remarked re: the price of John's book. There is no equivalent cross
listing or cross reference of internals.

Someone reading this list asked for a comparison from readers of both, and
one good one has been posted. I prefer John's, as everything that I can
read in Bach's has appeared elsewhere in the literature. I sent six folks
here to a Sun-er taught course at UCSC extension this term, it uses Bach's
book and they seem well served by it at the level of the course - intro.