On 6/4/2013 5:31 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/04/2013 05:04 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
7 years ago, when they discontinued all of the
"advanced" programming
classes, I was re-assigned to be a librarian. I insisted on the library
getting Knuth and K&R. The head librarian tried to veto them, "They are
WAY TOO OLD! We should only get current stuff." I pushed it. Hard.
We got them over her objections.
Ohhhhh good heavens.
Well it's good to know where at least one completely clueless person
is, so I can avoid her!
I got thinking about that, since they got rid of the "advanced"
programing why would you be able to get any *real* text books?
"????? for dummy's" seems to be today's library mind set.
-Dave
Ben.