RE: Programming Tomes was [Dev-C++] Question of the day

#$&@! firewalls!

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Donald Thumim
10/19/2000 03:05 PM

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Actually, the expression "It's Greek to me" refers to the fact that the
Greek alphabet is unreadable to the poor souls who were brought up with the
Latin alphabet.  Basically, it means that the subject matter is so
technical, abstruse or esoteric that the reader cannot understand it, and
so it might just as well be written in Greek for all the good it does him
or her.  Yes, it probably is an American expression, but no, I don't think
any ethnic slur is intended by it.

Don




"Ioannis Vranos" <no...@ya...>@lists.sourceforge.net on 10/19/2000
03:26:54 PM

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Hello,
    Yes you  are right, I checked my book again, \a and \b are very close
together, it was my  mistake. I am using the book Object-Oriented
Programming in C++ Second Edition,  it's quite old (Copyright 1995) I got
it for $9 at a used bookstore : )
I  love those kind! 8-)

I pick up just about everything I find.  I  figure, some are good, some are
definitely not; however, they all look at things  from different
perspectives, and sometimes something that's greek in one book is  clear as
day in another.  (Even if some of those books start to look a  little long
in the tooth!)

Now i am a greek, and i do not  understand the meaning of that expression,
but i guess it is some american  smart-ass-i-know-all expression. :)



Recently (on another list) a war started over the value of books (ie. the
21 Days compared to college / university texts).  I agree that some of the
21 Day/Dummies/Idiot's guides are surface material, I find them helpful
when I  want to check out a topic.  I then start to delve a little deeper,
and then  I look for resources online (about language style, the ins and
outs of a  language, etc.).

Speaking of which, does anybody have any good links to  C++ related
material?  Particularly good object-oriented source...   I've poked around,
but most of what I find seems to relate to DOS level C  graphics/demo
programming.

Except of links i suggest Bjarne  Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming
Language" - Special Edition, that's what i am  reading currently. This,
assuming you have already read some good introductory  book in C++ (e.g.
"Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days" by Jesse Liberty, Sams  Publishing).

My background is rather VB, and sources that I've found nice are things
like  www.planetsourcecode.com
(They've got some stuff for other languages, but  nothing "meaty" ... for
an example, check out the Delphi section!)

I have some links at: http://members.nbci.com/noicys/links.htm

Ioannis