But how about to write in Smalltalk?? Surely they
should be able to become competent Smalltalk quickly
even if they are not now!

Regards, Vasili "Ruskii troll"

--- "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Galchin Vasili <vngalchin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 	    Yesterday, I bought "Data Structures with STL"
> by
> 	Wiliam Murray and Chris Pappas (Prentice Hall) with
> 	ISBN 0-13-028927-2. If you look on pgs. 5b and 13,
> you
> 	will find ...... "SmallTalk" .... hmmm ... I am 
> 	considering returning this book. These guys are 
> 	obviously incompetent because they misspelled.
> 
> They are obviously not competent to write about
> Smalltalk, no.
> Just like Betrand Meyer's OOSC2 book contains some
> glaring
> errors about Algol 68 and a couple of other
> languages.
> 
> It's an unsound argument.  If I want a book about
> using STL, I
> want authors who know a heckuva lot about C++ and
> the STL, and
> don't greatly care about their competence in
> Smalltalk.  If I
> want a book about how to do OOP in Eiffel, I don't
> greatly care
> about the author's competence concerning Algol 68.
> 
> I _would_ wonder about Prentice Hall's editing
> processes, though.
> 
> 


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