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What is this? "Write about what you want, but only if I also want it!" He wants to write a technical book with political examples, and did. How do you justify t
by Retra 9y ago
What is this? "Write about what you want, but only if I also want it!" He wants to write a technical book with political examples, and did. How do you justify the requirement that books must into clean archetypical categories against the "do what you want" argument you just made?
- dymk 9y agoThe title of the book is "Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Guide to Oracle8i Features", not "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, plus my rambling political edge"
- Retra 9y agoI'm not sure why you think that's a prohibition on political content in examples. Lots of technical books have diatribes concerning many things irrelevant to the subject matter. I read a programming book that dared to have jokes in it once. Gasp! One even talked about DNA and the wagging of dogs' tails. I suppose we've got to be extra puritanical and dogmatic once our delicate political sensitivities become more important than learning something. That way lies progress.
- brain5ide 9y agoJokes are what is called comic relief - a psychologic tool to ease the acceptance of the content. I find it hard to imagine a political topic fitting the same function. But who am I to judge the author o his choices of examples. The only way is through not buying the book and maybe giving advice not to buy it either.
- kazagistar 9y agoAdmittedly, that would be the kind of title that would make me want to pick up the book waaaay more.
- gozur88 9y agoWhich is fine - but the point is you know what you're getting.