Re: Book
Re: Book
- Subject: Re: Book
- From: Mike Puckett <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 07:01:00 -0800
>
I just received a copy of "Mac OS X Developer's Guide" by Jesse Feiler
>
from Amazon. It is a large book, which might entice some to buy the tome
>
on the theory that there must be _something_ of value in so many pages.
>
Such a theory would be dead wrong in my opinion. What little of real
>
value that might be gleaned is so overwhelmed by useless blithering that
>
finding the nuggets, if indeed there are any, would be way too time
>
consuming to justify the effort. I used the sparse index to search out
>
possible answers for a host of issues that are still bugging me, and found
>
zip in the way of enlightenment. Indeed, if the word superficial did not
>
already exist it would have to be coined to describe this mish-mash. A
>
pox on the author, the publisher, and anyone else involved in this
>
miserable misadventure.
>
...
>
>
Brian E. Howard
>
Cocoa Cult Central
>
still working on mysteries with too few clues
I agree completely. I actually read through the *whole* thing hoping
that something could be gleamed from it. Nope. (If you ever saw the
movie BeetleJuice, they keep referring to a book entitled, "Handbook for
the Recently Deceased." Everyone in the movie who reads it says that it
reads like "stereo instructions." This giant blue book is worse than
that.)
-- Mike P., email@hidden
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: Book
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>