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| Date: | 23 Feb 2001 at 01:14:35 |
| Subject: | Re: Anyone interested in writing a C-Amiga book? |
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From: "Allan Odgaard" <Duff@DIKU.DK>
To: <amiga-c@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: ga-c] Re: Anyone interested in writing a C-Amiga
> I wouldn't write such a book all by myself, but I'd gladly contribute. I
> would however be interested in writing a book about MUI programming,
> which some have requested me to do (I even started the table of
> contents ;-) ), but I didn't think the marked was big enough to justify
> my efforts (I'm not talking about profit but merely the fact that it
> wouldn't be good for my self esteem if I spent e.g. a month on a book
> that only 10 people would read).
Heheh. Yeah, why would anyone want to read about MUI anyhow? :)
>
> > secondly. Is there people who are interested in such a book if its
> > done, and reasonably priced?
>
> It would probably be a good idea to collect requests about which topics
> people would like to read about, as I imagine that even experienced
> Amiga developers could be tempted to buy the book if it had the proper
> contents. But perhaps that would make it more of a FAQ than a book...
That idea has some merit, however I still don't think the results would be
worthwhile. Personally, I think you'd all be better off doing a well
commented, organized source collection complemented by explanatory text
files and/or tutorials on selected topics succh as CA,MUI,TCP/IP, debugging,
etc.). The effort would be similar, but the expense would be nonexistant,
both to the writers/publisher and the end user. If I still used the Amiga
much I'd contribute too, but my spare time is pretty much taken up playing
with my shiny new PC lately.
Regards Rod
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