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>Either you are so vague that people muddle, then google and your book is effectively useless. Or you are so prescriptive that people end up reading a floor pla
by sosagain 12y ago
>Either you are so vague that people muddle, then google and your book is effectively useless. Or you are so prescriptive that people end up reading a floor plan to build an OS and get squat out of it.
Finding a middle ground is of course key.
- brudgers 12y agoI look at the books in my library. The middling one's are more or less reference materials. But the good ones -- On Lisp, JavaScript Allonge, HtDP, or SICP? None are dumbed down. The author is trying to impart all the knowledge that they can impart coherently. Knuth stands above them all of course. But its cautionary tale is that it's a book about compilers. I'm pretty sure I'll live to see chapter 12, but as it stands today, there are four more chapters to be released before it. Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming in 1962.