Re: Herbert Schildt C code from books

2020-08-27 Thread John Ames via cctalk 
I don't know how well-known they were in their day; I only discovered
them around a decade ago, while digging into lesser-known
progressive-rock groups. Definitely a nice little treat, though -
people who gave them crap for sounding a lot like Yes weren't wrong,
but they had enough going on to be worth listening to nonetheless.

On 8/27/20, jw...@classiccmp.org  wrote:
> I thought starcastle was mostly a Saint Louis area thing. Lady of the Lake
> is on my playlist.
>
> -Original Message-
>>He shoulda stuck to being the keyboardist for Starcastle; he was actually
>> good at that!
>
>
>

Re: Herbert Schildt C code from books

2020-08-27 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk 
I rather thought that Starcastle was simply an awesome video game, and it’s one 
of my favorite Atari 2600 cartridges.

Zane



> On Aug 27, 2020, at 4:02 PM, jwest--- via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> I thought starcastle was mostly a Saint Louis area thing. Lady of the Lake is 
> on my playlist.
> 
> -Original Message-
>> He shoulda stuck to being the keyboardist for Starcastle; he was actually 
>> good at that!
> 
>

RE: Herbert Schildt C code from books

2020-08-27 Thread jwest--- via cctalk 
I thought starcastle was mostly a Saint Louis area thing. Lady of the Lake is 
on my playlist.

-Original Message-
>He shoulda stuck to being the keyboardist for Starcastle; he was actually good 
>at that!

Re: Herbert Schildt C code from books

2020-08-27 Thread John Ames via cctalk 
He shoulda stuck to being the keyboardist for Starcastle; he was
actually good at that!

Re: Herbert Schildt C code from books

2020-08-27 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk 
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:11:05AM +, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I hope you say no, because I will probably learn more by keying in the code
> in the text, and finding my errors.

The errors in the code will not be yours. You will learn more by throwing
everything written by Herbert Schildt into the recycling and getting some
decent books written by somebody who isn't a Dunning-Kruger case. I occasionaly
hear him referred to as "Herbert Shit". His books have negative value, except
perhaps as firelighters.

Here are a couple of critiques of some of his other works which do not pull
their punches:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html
https://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn4e.html