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That wasn't the only thing that was small about TP. The entire documentation for version 2 was a single book about 8 inches high, 5 1/2 inches wide and about an
by miked 15y ago
That wasn't the only thing that was small about TP. The entire documentation for version 2 was a single book about 8 inches high, 5 1/2 inches wide and about an inch think. You could learn the entire language, IDE, library, and debugger in a weekend.
Only six months before I met TP I had been using punch cards on the University's mainframe. TP2 was pure shock and awe.
- wanorris 15y agoA whole inch thick? The first edition of The C Programming Language couldn't have been half that!
- ramchip 15y agoAccording to the OP, "You could learn the entire language, IDE, library, and debugger in a weekend." This implies that the manual covers a lot more ground than The C Programming Language, which (AFAIK) doesn't say anything about Emacs, GDB, GCC, sockets...
- 89988989 15y agoDon't obsess over size guys, its how you use it is what matters at the end of the day.