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From: guido@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Great C.S. Books (actually: A-W flame)
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 19:38:13 EST
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In article <16500002@hpfcla.UUCP> jim@hpfcla.UUCP (jim) writes:
>In honesty, I have non A-W books that are good, but ALL my A-W books are good.

Sorry -- I once had to buy A-W's 'Artificial Intelligence' by Winston, and
was severely disappointed.  All it contained was a series of case studies
that were pursued ad nauseam ("oh look how wonderful this was done!"),
plus a 120-page course in Lisp-programming -- not very entertaining.

(No I don't work for A-W either.)