I got to page 435 last night of this book, which is approximately halfway through the material (not counting appendices).

I've bought many big books on various computing languages over the years, but I usually only end up reading the first three or four chapters in order. I typically skip to the "good parts" and never actually read the entire thing cover-to-cover.

I wonder though, how many professional programmers--besides Duffbert--actually read any of those supersized tomes from start to finish? Should publishing companies give out medals (or frequent reader points) for those who can prove they've read the "the whole thing"?

1. Vitor Pereira01/29/2009 03:04:28 PM
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Duffbert is not a professional programmer, he's a professional reader who also does some programming now and then

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