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From: collin@hpindda.HP.COM (Collin Park)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: The Waite Groups's C++ programming
Message-ID: <6170001@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 22:30:36 GMT
References: <327@titn.TITN>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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greg@titn.TITN (Greg Altman) writes:
>> [stuff deleted]
>>
>> Why don't authors follow an accepted practice of actually trying to compile
>> their examples before incuding them in the main text?
>> ----------

... and, once they do, ensure that the working code is copied
_by_machine_ (*NOT* by hand/eye) into the text of the book, so as to
avoid typos.

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collin park