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Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer

From Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer
Date 2023-01-15 23:32 +0300
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Malcolm McLean:

> A publisher told me that he would publish Basic
> Algorithms, my "cookbook" if it were rewritten in C++ or
> Javascript, but that he found he couldn't sell books in C.
> Unfortunately I didn't have the time or the enthusiasm to
> rewrite it.

I though it should be otherwise, because both JavaScript and
C++ will have most of those algorithms built-in, and because
it should seem easier to convert them from C to those newer
languages than back.

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greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) - 2023-01-05 13:31 +0000
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 07:10 -0800
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-05 17:17 +0000
    Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) - 2023-01-06 16:41 +0000
      Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-01-06 09:29 -0800
        Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-01-06 20:01 +0100
        Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2023-01-15 23:32 +0300
        Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Rob <invalid@invalid.net> - 2023-01-15 22:00 +0000
          Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-01-15 15:03 -0800
            Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-01-16 09:32 +0000
              Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-16 12:25 +0000
                Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> - 2023-01-16 13:51 +0000
                Whoooooosh!  (Was: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-01-16 14:09 +0000
      Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-01-06 17:32 +0000
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-01-05 19:55 +0100
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) - 2023-01-05 20:28 +0000
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 14:07 -0800
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) - 2023-01-06 16:34 +0200
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-01-08 05:21 -0800
    Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-01-08 12:58 -0800
  Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2023-01-09 04:51 -0800
    Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-01-09 06:03 -0800

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