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The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out

On the matter of book back text, The Profit by Kehlog Albran has a rear blurb that likens the style of the author to that of a man with a much larger brain.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened:

   Recruiter: Hey there!  Do you know what this is?
   Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol
   Recruiter:  No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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post #2

Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out

Also is this an official Microsoft dev blog?

Probably not a good look back at publishing hq

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I wish was a real HTML tag
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