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I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published. Still a classic to this day. Excerpt: ...The Story About Ping ha
by jdcarter 10y ago
I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published. Still a classic to this day. Excerpt: ...The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage on the Windows API ("Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight -- Nothing whatever I discerned therein."), without shaking their head with deep understanding. But I digress.
I still laugh reading it--truly satire at its finest.
- gumby 10y ago> I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published... I think you mean "shortly after it appeared on Amazon" since the book was old when I was a kid in the 1960s, pre Internet and pre Amazon. (Or your commend extends the April 1 tradition, which is cool).
- jdcarter 10y agoSorry, I meant "shortly after the review was published," not the book. In fact "The Story About Ping" was a favorite children's book of mine when I was young (in the '70s) and I still have that copy.