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Re:Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (1997) by agumonkey on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:10PM (#15625927)
It stings but you can't get pedantic into these sorts of tutorials. Maybe he could [*] warning: crude classifaction, more to learn in these books
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Re:Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (1997) by p4bl0 on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:09AM (#15628852)
Yes that would ne better.

My point wasn't to get pedantic nor to criticize this particular sentence alone. I'm essentially saying that beginners' material could often be as easily comprehensible without the sort of "simplification" that actually says something wrong.

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