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Hello Bob - 

BS>>> If I wanted a freebie that might be germane. What I'm
BS>>> interested in, though, is a mutually beneficial business
BS>>> arrangement. 

>> When someone mentions "a mutually beneficial business
>> arrangement" I hear "freebie". 

BS> Obviously, you did miss part of this. The reason I wanted
BS> to reach him was to see if I could obtain reprint rights
BS> from he and Pearson/Prentice Hall. If so, then both he and
BS> PH would receive royalties. 

I would expect Prentice/Hall to have enough contacts with
bookstores to sell the book without needing to get involved
with contractual obligations with individuals. 

>>>> Find an American author. 

BS>>> He used to work for an American company - HP. Does that
BS>>> satisfy your sense of chauvinism? In this case, I look
BS>>> for the best regardless of national origin. 

>> There is no "sense of chauvinism" here. You said you can
>> compress your writing to three pages by making references to
>> the book by page and chapter. How useful is that to the
>> reader if even _you_ can't buy the book? 

BS> Obviously, not very useful, hence my desire to find - or
BS> become - a continuing source of the book. 

If you are hired by an American company to write
instruction/documentation for their existing software and, in
the process, encrypt it down to three pages that only make
sense if the reader buys a book only _you_ can sell them it
would appear a conflict of interest to me. If I was the person
who hired you I would also fire you for doing that. 

BS> As for finding an American author... No one else has ever
BS> written a comparable book simply because Straker wrote the
BS> definitive work. As noted, if you research the topic,
BS> eventually every discussion, every book's bibliography,
BS> they all wind up back at Straker's work. 

I hear this frequently but truth is no one is that good. I'd
wager there are three or four others out there as good or
better. 

BS> If you don't read Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic, you don't look
BS> for an English-speaking author to produce a new Bible, you
BS> find a way to translate and reprint the existing one. For
BS> software QA and departmental standards folks trying to
BS> write C coding standards, Straker's book *is* the Bible. 

Apparently not or the book would still be sold here. ;-) 

>> If it was an American (recent) author referring to the book
>> might make some sense although I personally find that
>> 'style' arrogant and too pushy about what books I should own. 

BS> I don't really know what you're trying to say here, so I
BS> can't comment. If you're reacting to the use of the word,
BS> "style", don't. As previously noted, Straker doesn't
BS> espouse any particular coding style, but discusses a number
BS> of options, each in the light of the psychological studies
BS> of readability which comprise Chapter 1. 

I'm referring to your style. If you attempt to force me to buy
a book from you to interpret what you write my response would
be to stop reading what you write. 

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