C Review

[Frank Adams]

In article <1462 at blia.BLI.COM> forrest at 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.

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