In article <3e293c2e$1@news.povray.org> , "Vadim Sytnikov" <syt### [at] rucom>
wrote:

> "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>>
>> It depends on the topic - for example I would judge a book on MS-DOS as
>> outdated, yes.  And even a few chapters in a book on algorithm analysis
>> might be considered outdated.  The only written works that can never be
>> outdated are fictional ones.
>
> I see. Makes some sense, but I have to admit that I'm tempted to ask how
> many knights' novels have you read recently. But I guess I should not ask,
> since that would only lead to one more disagreement, right? :-)
>
> Well, as to the code... it works for me perfectly. IMHO, nothing in it makes
> it outdated. Nothing. If one programs in C, the code is perfectly usable
> right away. If one is a C++ adept, writing a wrapper class is trivial.
>
> In fact, I have my own "polished" version of that procedure, the one that I
> use heavily in my projects. But since I were not the original author, I
> though that it would be more fair to post the original version, with the
> original comments etc. (especially given that the author was so generous to
> release the code to the public domain).

Completely unrelated, but here is an example of supposedly well-working code
that is only five years old:

<http://groups.google.de/groups?threadm=f5c52e87.0301190433.269fb975%40posti
ng.google.com>

    Thorsten

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e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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