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A clear, concise, no-nonsense book on Java that would appeal most to serious programmers. Authored by an MIT CS prof and a real-world Java expert. Written in a terse, slide-show style that presents each essential idea in a brief paragraph without unnecessary verbiage. Much like this review.
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Ralf Brown's MS-DOS Interrupt List is an important resource. For developers trying to avoid interrupt conflicts with other software, it is essential. For students of DOS internals, it is mandatory. For PC support staff, it is a valuable guide in determining the cause of odd behaviour. In the virus research community, we are continually referring to it, and referring others to it, to determine why a virus has hooked certain interrupts, and what it's going to trigger on. (Brown returns the compliment. He gave us chapter thirty-four in the original edition, and now chapter fifty-nine. Many names in the acknowledgements section are familiar as the more technical of the MS-DOS crowd in antiviral research.) The Interrupt List, itself, ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Quigley's examples guide one quickly into the language. The explanations are as clear and straightforward as those of Swartz in "Learning Perl" (see reviews). This is a fine introduction to the language. All that having been said, I was still somewhat disappointed by this book. Perl does not lack for its devotees. It is the language of choice for CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts and Web forms. Why, then, is it so hard to write something to excite the non-programming reader? copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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Kientzle's "Internet File Formats" (see reviews) is still one of my basic references for the bewildering variety of file types you find around the net. This work narrows the focus to a single subject, extends the level of detail, and presents the material from the perspective of one who needs to process that type of data. The discussions of programming itself are based around C++ code samples. The book starts with sound itself, and a simple, but informative explanation of what sound is, and how it is formed. Chapter two explains some of the fascinating particulars of human sound perception, and how we mess up the clean technical factors of raw pressure waves. A third chapter looks at storage, sampli... Rest of this review on the detail page
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This book is not for SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) managers, users, or even developers. (The author assumes you already know SGML: the acronym isn't even expanded for you.) No, this book is for those specialists who are writing programs concerned with converting, or filtering, material to, from, or between SGML formats. After an introduction to the book, two chapters look generally at conversion activities. A further two discuss the conversion process overall. Chapters six through eleven look at programming languages for writing conversion filters; first severally, and then in detail at AWK, Perl, C and C++, OmniMark, and the author's own S-Engine. The remainder of the book looks at conversions between ASCII, HTML, RT... Rest of this review on the detail page
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