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(Nov-24-2016, 11:33 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: [ -> ]Yet his book is in every book store that I go to,
and at least one course at MIT

This sounds like a joke

No, it's fact

I believe you.
I see the google ranking and I can't get it how this is possible.

I just checked the course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-e.../index.htm
and it looks as though it's no longer part of (or never really was)
Sorry to say I broke one of my own cardinal rules (never use third party comments as fact)

My favorite part:

some idiot Wrote:This a classic "Macho Code Guy" move and it has no place in a language for beginners.

This from the guy who wrote Learn Python the Hard Way, a macho code guy title if there ever was one.

Well one should probably excuse him from his stand on Python 3 due to his limited perspective.
It's kind of like when my dad, offering new food,  would say 'Try it you'll like it'. I immediately knew
that I wouldn't.
Alas, when I grew up, I found out that I really did like it, and had been missing out for all these years.