[TriLUG] Older Programming books vs Modern Programming books

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, John Riselvato wrote:

> My question is have any of you ever experienced this same 
> problem were you wish more modern books had the same feel 
> as older programming books?

My experience is that only about 1 in 10 text books is worth 
reading (sampling starting in the '60's). I think you were 
just lucky to find one that was useful.

Joe

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