[ale] [Fwd: James Gosling will be speaking at the Sept. AJUG meeting]

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:47 -0600, JK wrote:

> 
> Amen, brother!
> 
> Though "expensive" is a relative term. K&R goes for about $45
> nowadays, and not every budding programmer can afford even that.
> Don't even talk to me about the prices of Lisp books.
> 
> Incidentally, safari.oreilly.com is a really nice deal, if you
> can come to terms with reading books online.  $20/month gets
> you access to essentially all of the O'Reilly and Addison-Wesley
> catalog, plus some other publishers that escape me right
> now. Sure, thats $240 a year, but I could probably only
> actually afford to *buy* five of those books for that
> amount. You also get really nice discounts on paper
> copies.
> 


Someone just told me about O?Reilly?s Safari service, and that seems
very cool.  It looks like it is a much better deal than Books24x7.com,
which I used to have access to as an employee somewhere in the past.  I
think that I am going to have to try out Safari next Pell check I get? I
could probably make very good use of it.  :-)

    ? Mike

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