[thelist] RE: trusted computer book publishers

[Brooking, John]

> What computer book publishers do you trust, admire,
> and value the most. Their books are reliable,
> accurate, practical, extremely authoritative, and
> comprehensive in treatment of subjects.

Definitely O'Reilly. I would say they fit all the adjectives you
describe. In addition, they are concise. They don't pad their books with
long source code listings for entire sample applications that I don't
need. Rather, they just give you snippets demonstrating the topic at
hand. Which leads me to my next point, that they give you credit for
intelligence and prior knowledge. They trust that you can take the
snippets they give and put them together on your own. And they explain
the concepts and reasoning behind the syntax. They are written for
programming professionals, not the Excel power user who wants to Learn
Database Programming in 24 Hours.

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