Bob Stout wrote in a message to tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be:

 BS> From: rbs{at}snippets.org
 BS> To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

 BS> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be wrote:

> Howdy,  stranger!

 BS> Stranger than what? Stranger than most? Stranger than fiction? ;-) 

 BS> I've been absent for a while because I've actually been occupied
 BS> with other stuff - including, taa-daa, gainful employment after a
 BS> long dry spell.

I'm heading into one of those now,  but am also taking the time to get into
doing a lot of things around here that I haven't had the time to do
before...

 BS> Which is what led me to my search for David Straker. Among other
 BS> things, I'm setting up some sort of rudimentary firmware standards
 BS> at the company where I'm working and one of the easiest ways to
 BS> establish coding standards is to use references to Straker's book.
 BS> Unfortunately, it hasn't been reprinted since Pearson bought out
 BS> Prentice Hall and is therefore officially out of print here in the
 BS> U.S.

They _won't_ ship?  Weird...

 BS> Amazon in the UK and Germany list it, but won't sell to U.S.
 BS> addresses. This leaves me with a couple of options:

 BS> 1. Find a cohort who can buy it in Europe and ship it here for me
 BS> (the short-term solution), or

 BS> 2.  Help me locate Straker and gain the rights to do my own
 BS> book-on-demand publishing of it (the long-term solution).

Makes sense to me.

 BS> Actually, I kinda like the idea of a SNIPPETS Press publication. If
 BS> I could pull it off with Straker's book, there are lots of other
 BS> useful C books which are also out of print as the rest of the world
 BS> has flocked to C++, Java and other languages du jour. We hardcore
 BS> embedded systems guys are once again left feeling like red-headed
 BS> stepchildren...

Examples?

I never find the time for those other languages,  myself.

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