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Subject: Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays
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Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> Deitel and Deitel is a reasonable book. Or at least I thought it was. 
>> Are you telling me the example code came from that book? If so, Deitel 
>> and Deitel have gone catastrophically downhill.
>> 
> No no no, this example is not from that book, I have not yet started
> it. This example is from a tiny (53 pages) book on pointers, dating
> from 1997 or so.

Is there some reason you're unwilling to identify the book?  I'd like to
know what it is so I can take a look and possibly warn people away from
it.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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