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How is a book review advertising?

I think this is a perfect site for book reviews, especially ones contributed by users. I hope to see more.

> How is a book review advertising?

Because in the URL there is "osnews" maybe to get commissions on sales, but this is ok, I'm just assuming here.

Well, osnews gets money from Amazon for every sale done after clicking the link from osnews.

So it's a little bit dishonest to compare this with reviews about OSes etc.

Anyway I believe in that the reviewer was trying to be objective and doesn't has this profit in mind, from which he presumably doesn't see anything.

Well I wasn't aware that `the last great book about you favourite programming language' was part of the editorial line. Thank you for the clarification.

> We post reviews of commercial Operating Systems.
> We post reviews of commercial applications.
> We post reviews of peripherals, often provided
> by third party sites with whom we have a relationship.
> We post reviews of handhelds and phones.

And I really thank you for giving this insight on technology but I can't remember having read such a review with a direct link to buy the feature.

Edited 2007-02-21 16:34

Hey enrages me. I feel exactly the same way about the 'C' shell too.

I think the bottom line is that the people involved in hiring programmers often have so little knowledge about the subject.

[Warning, begin off-topic rant]
Where I live, .NET is the big thing. I always get these questions about whether I am a C# developer or a VB.NET developer. I try to explain to them that in the .NET world the two are almost the same. You are coding the exact same API, and that I wouldn't trust a programmer who couldn't translate code between the two. When I say this, all I see are glazed eyes. To the people who do the hiring, they are as different as VB6 and Visual C++. I finally just gave up trying to explain it, and just made sure I had equal experience with both.

I mean, can it really be that hard to change:

Dim frmNew as Form
frmNew = new Form()
frmNew.text = "My Form"

To:

Form frmNew;
frmNew = new Form();
frmNew.text = "My Form";

Wow, what a magical transformation!

Granted, there are some subtle differences - keyword differences (shared vs static), initialization differences, etc, but they are trivial compared to the old days of Visual C++ vs. VB6. In fact, I think the differences are more mindset than anything - geek snobs vs. code cowboys (I'll let you decide which is which ;} )

[End off-topic rant]

So true. Ironically, it was originally meant to be "livescript", but later changed to javascript, because it was released at the same time as the java-enabled Netscape. Apparently, they were confused about it themselves

This is so true... I hear it all the time, people saying their site is done in Java, and the extension is .php, or programers who say they know Java, and then when you talk about JSP, netbeans, servlets, they don't know what you're talking about, then you say they are probably talking about Javascript, and they say "Yes, Javascript, or Java, same thing, every site uses Java these days". Too sad.

Well, Under ECMA standard 262, it's known as ECMAScript.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.h...

Thanks, I'd almost forgotten.

Actually, Goodman's JavaScript Bible (Wiley) is a sort of JavaScript Bible. It's a reference, not a tutorial, but it's been indispensable to me for seven years running.