I don't buy computer books anymore because I'm already swimming in pulp. I've
moved enough across the country to not want to accumulate more stacks of books.
Instead, I like to use Safari on orielly, which lets me have up to 5 or so
computer books available online.

Tim

Jeff Grigg <jgrigg@...> wrote:
--- "Jack Frosch" wrote:
> One interesting, and mildly disturbing, statistic was
> presented at the keynote address by Dave Thomas.
> While discussing the need for continual learning, he
> said a recent survey showed 90% of developers don't
> purchase books on development. I suspect many of
> the same folks would never attend training unless
> someone else was paying for it.

--- Mike Shoemaker wrote:
> [...] I guess those 90% still don't know that Dave
> mentioned them since, of course, they were not there ;)

I like to say that they don't have the books because /I bought them
all!!!/ Bwaaaa,ha,ha,ha,ha!!! (...evil laugh. ;-)

Funny... I'm not the only one with a Computer Science college
major. And yet they don't see the value in buying a book now and
then, and/or reading a magazine article? I guess they (or their
parents) paid for college, so they must have learned it all?






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