I agree with the basic premise of your post, TVSET, that some fundamental texts don't need to change too often.

However, I disagree with your example.

For example, books on Assembly language programming. They haven't changed much during the last 20 years.

You know about that whole VLIW thing that popped up recently, right?

If you are unfortunate enough to have to look at itanium assembler, you're going to have a tough time doing it with a reference from 20 years ago at your side. It's _very_ different.

Just about like doing perl 5 using K&R would be...


Mike

In reply to Re: Re: OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" by RMGir
in thread OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" by parv

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