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Sat Apr 14 22:53:30 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/068873.html

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:57:13 -0400, "Steve Holden"
<sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:

>> Ever since I saw _Borland C++ for Dummies_, I have concluded that
>> *nothing* is truly anathema to computer book publishers.
>
>Yes, that is surely one of those books which should consist entirely of
>blank pages. Nowadays, of course, it is considered elitist to claim not to
>be a dummy. Next it will be "Nuclear Power Station Design for Dummies"
>(although, remembering Three Mile Island, the operations staff clearly had
>their own volume in that series).

Sigh.  Me dear ol' Dad is a somewhat-retired physics professor who has
had many a student that later headed in the direction Steve alludes
to. His commentary on the qualifications of those students has never
been encouraging...

Mats Wichmann

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address xyzmats at laplaza.org. Not that it helps much...)

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