Ridiculous Price of Squeak Books (was Re: Computerchannel.de: Squeak 3.0 tested)

PhiHo Hoang phiho.hoang at home.com
Sun Oct 7 20:03:27 UTC 2001


Hi Karl,

    Thanks for the tips but I was a bit too late. It was pulled off the
site. The contents is now closed :-(

    Cheers,

    PhiHo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Ramberg" <karl.ramberg at chello.se>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: Ridiculous Price of Squeak Books (was Re: Computerchannel.de:
Squeak 3.0 tested)


> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial/drafts/WholeBook.pdf
> This looks like a interesting read too :-)
>
> Karl
>
> Fleeberz at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 2001-10-01 11:43:53 AM, guzdial at cc.gatech.edu writes:
> >
> > >For what it's worth, the chapters at
> > >http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/squeakbook are essentially the same (minus
> > >formatting and some detail editing by Prentice-Hall's editors) as the
> > >NuBlue book.  The bound book is lovely (yay, Ian!) and is worth its
> > >price, in my opinion, but the CONTENT is available without a
> > >"ridiculous price."  Noel Rappin's chapter is a fine intro to Squeak.
> >
> > Not knocking your books, Mark (nor those of other authors here). Really!
And
> > I've certainly spent "vast fortunes" on books before - one usually gets
what
> > one pays for, unless its some kind of "fad"
you-can-only-learn-it-from-me,
> > you-must-have-it-to-survive kind of thing; thankfully, these are rare.
> > Paradoxically, when trying to learn something, I absorb less from direct
> > radiation than I do from indirect scattering off dead trees; perhaps you
> > yourself have considered the notion of "curling up with a good book."
> >
> > Thank you for the link; I have that stuff and must force myself to try
to
> > read more of it some time. Now if I had a decent printer or second
monitor...
> > I'd retroactively spend the money for either of those and buy the
book(s)! ;^)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Flee
> >
> > P.S. The price is NOT ridiculous, it just makes the book unavailable to
some.
>
>





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