"Malcolm McLean" <regniztar@btinternet.com> writes:

> "Richard" <rgrdev@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> "Malcolm McLean" <regniztar@btinternet.com> writes:
>>
>>> There's a huge advantage to buying books written by people on this ng,
>>> which is that you can speak to the author.
>>
>> I prefer a book where I don't need to talk to the author to understand
>> it to be honest.
>>
> And you don't need a C compiler to learn the language. My mother

How that has anything to do with needing to talk to a books author is
beyond me.

> learnt programming for a non-existent computer. This was in the days
> when they used to count the number of computers in the world.
> However it is a real if you can type programs in and see the
> results.

Err, yes. I would agree.