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This is at best an adequate elementary
textbook in the area. Of course the subject matter of programming
languages is changing, but not this much, and the basics are static.
He has come out with a new edition roughly
every 2 years for 20 years. (Publishers force authors to sign contracts
that require regular new editions of textbooks, and if an author
refuses, by the contract the publisher can get another author
to put our a new edition. The motive is obvious: so that
students will need to buy new books. Nevertheless this is
an extreme case.)
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