Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: blmblm@myrealbox.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: How far back can we go? Date: 29 Aug 2011 12:07:38 GMT Organization: None Lines: 21 Message-ID: <9c1do9F1tcU1@mid.individual.net> References: <4e58a696$0$828$e4fe514c@dreader28.news.xs4all.nl> <88a33df17e428daea787d8a26ecb6cb9@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <1351725e-58c3-4395-b93d-ff0ab9264945@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net bAhULMS5hdiDGrzsrSTvJgIIzjpzYVTgZ8H/u1Ch3sFIVWsU8m X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:hqQHXgQPdUrjNsoTBFtqEF2PR8U= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:977 In article <1351725e-58c3-4395-b93d-ff0ab9264945@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com>, Lew wrote: > Fritz Wuehler wrote: > > I know there are new tutorials all the time but I wondered if the old books > > are still good. I guess by your answer using them can lead to not learning > > the best ways to do things in current Java. Thanks. > > If the books were good, they've been updated and you can use the new > editions. I'm far from convinced that the correlation between quality and updates is as strong as you seem to be saying it is. It seems to me that whether a book gets updated depends not so much on quality as on whether the author is interested in doing an update and the publisher is interested in publishing it. ? [ snip ] -- B. L. Massingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.