Recommendations please

[Ben Wolfson]

On 19 Aug 2000 02:17:18 GMT, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

>In article <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCGEKGHAAA.tim_one at email.msn.com>,
>Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>>[searcher7 at my-deja.com]
>>>
>>> Then can you tell me what is the best book for non-programmers that
>>> you've ever seen? :-)
>>
>>"Alice in Wonderland".  It's a delight!  And it has more to teach about
>>programming than you'll realize until you've been programming for, oh,
>>about five years <wink>.
>
>Yeah, especially when you re-read Humpty Dumpty's speech about names
>about the same time you start using pointers....

That's actually in "Through the Looking Glass", and I think you mean the
White Knight.  (He's the one referring to what the name of the song is
called, what the name of the song is, what the song is called, and what the
song is.)

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