I saw a Book For Sale message, and I could not resist paroding it. First, the victim of my parody:
Subject: FS: book, Windows Socket Network Programming This book is for you who want to write the next great app for the internet? Did you know that most of those application you use be it Netscape, IE, Napster, ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc. etc. are written using Winsock, the technology taught in this book. Almost no application now a day don't use some form of TCP/IP networking over Winsock. so if you are out to design the next internet application, this book is for you. Windows Socket Network Programming Bob Quinn and Dave Shute $40 OBO
Now, my parody.
Subject: Parody: Advertisement: Structured Programming by Dahl, Hoare,
and Dijkstra
This book is for you who want to write the next killer app for
Internet, eCommerce, B2B, WAP, Bluetooth, and what-have-you. Did you
know that most of those applications you use, be it Netscape, IE,
Word, Excel, VB, Shockwave, SQL Server, IIS, Servlet, etc., etc., are
all written using structured programming, the technology taught in
this book? Almost no computer program nowadays don't use some form of
structured programming such as loops and subroutines. So if you are
out to design the next killer application, this book is for you.
Structured Programming
O. J. Dahl, C. A. R. Hoare, and E. W. Dijkstra
Academic Press, 1972
~ $117
Available in major online bookstores near you.
(Now I am going overboard.)
Written by CS celebrities, highly-acclaimed researchers and
innovators, and ACM Turing Award winners (widely regarded as the CS
equivalent of Nobel prize laureates) such as O. J. Dahl (inventor of
OOP, and more), C. A. R. Hoare (inventor of preconditions and
postconditions, and more) and E. W. Dijkstra (inventor of the Dijkstra
shortest-path algorithm, the dining philosopher problem, the mutex,
and more), this book is the crystallization of the experience and
wisdom of the programming pioneers and giants who wrote applications,
compilers, and OSes --- and proved them correct (bug-free) --- before
you were born, and is an indispensible investment of your money and
time.
(That is the longest sentence I have ever written, to tell you
the truth.)
Surf to your nearest major online bookstore buy NOW. While
supplies last.
(That last sentence is a demonstration of the power of the while-loop
technology, a pivotal technology of the structured programming
technology.)
I could not believe I wrote it; I mean, `while-loop technology'. God forgive me.
Structured Programming is now also available online from ACM (link). You need a login, but it costs no money.