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On 5/16/2017 8:23 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2017 04:58:53 -0700, Eric Douglas wrote:
> 
>> On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 7:58:42 AM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> 2) I learn languages best by reading books but I was utterly unable to
>>> find even a barely adequate book on JavaScript. The O'Reilly book I
>>> eventually ended up with was one of their worst, little more than a
>>> recipe book for JavaScript fragments. It had no satisfactory
>>> description of the language constructs and syntax. Even
>>> comp.lang.javascript was unable to suggest a good book.
>>
>> books? who reads books anymore? https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
>> https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-javascript
> 
> Its rather difficult to stick bookmarks in a PDF or to see more than half
> a book page of text at a time. Dead tree books don't have either of these
> failings. They also work during power cuts, in wifi notspots and in
> Faraday cages.

     You can also scribble truly marvelous proofs in the margins,
if they're not too narrow.

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