While there is some truth that advanced people may have a hard time appreciating the position of not advanced people, it is equally true that people who are not advanced are not in a good position to evaluate how many misconceptions they were taught, or to know how many bad habits they will later have to unlearn.

As a result while I wouldn't say that being advanced makes you qualified to decide how good a book is for beginners, it does not disqualify you either. And if beginners are taken as the only judge of what beginners need, it becomes a case of the blind leading the blind.

Consider well the example of Matt Wright's Script Archives if you don't get my point...

In reply to Re (tilly) 3: Book Ranking by tilly
in thread Book Ranking by hsmyers

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