in reply to japhy and mystery

Hi.
BTW, it might be a good idea for someone who is into publishling to list a couple of pointers for people who are generally interested in writing books as well... I was pesudo thinking of writing a book on the 'over all' process of writing an application alone before the context of the language one writes in, resources used, open source vs closed source, api's (what's that?), class vs classless programing and the benefits of both... and, of course, has someone already programmed a (signifigant?) portion of the ocde you want to write...

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Zak

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Free Advice for New Writers (OT, long)
by footpad (Abbot) on May 07, 2001 at 19:03 UTC

    Well, some random pointers from my experience: