On Oct 08 00:34 93, david nugent of 3:632/348{at}fidonet wrote:

 >> I'm sure I only paid $60 for it .. then again, I think I paid
 >> $60 for K&R2, too so perhaps I have `$60' on-the-brain or
 >> something...
 dn>
 dn> J'z you're all being ripped off. The price tag still sitting here on my 
 dn> K&R 2nd edition is $36

Found it - $36.75, not including the member's discount at the Co-Op
bookshop.  I recently took an interest in O'Reilly's "Nutshell
Handbooks" series (including the mother of all nutshell books,
"UNIX Power Tools"), so that's probably what locked me $60 mode.

 dn> from TBS in Swanston St, Melbourne.

Yeah, but did your copy come in a brightly coloured plastic bag and include
a bonus bookmark?  ;-)

 dn> I paid $32 for the ARM.

I've been a little hesitant about Bjarne's C++ texts - how relevant will
they be when the ANSI C++ standard is ratified (assume for this question
that the standard will be ratified this century)?

I mean, we had AT&T Cfront 2.1, now 3.0 .. where will it end (and which
one will ANSI be compatible with)?  Being such an evolving language, I
thought it best not to overspend on it..


    - david
    david{at}harpo.nepean.uws.edu.au

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