Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Unfortunately, *I* was doing a computing degree, where almost anything 
> in any published book is out of date a very long time before the book 
> has even been printed.

That doesn't mean it's wrong. That just means it's out of date.

I was referring more like fiction books, religious books, etc.

I ran across on my bookshelf a college textbook (copyright 1974) named 
something like "Mathematics of Computer Graphics."  All the math was still 
spot-on, but it was amusing to look at (for example) a bank of 
potentiometers labeled "typical graphical input device", and a teletype 
shown as "low cost graphics output" next to an ASCII art sine wave.


-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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