[Gllug] Newbie asks: how to learn?

[Chris Ball]

>> On 22 Dec 2002 07:15:08, Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> said:

   >> Read Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line".

   > *however*, it's quite clear he doesn't fully get some of the
   > technical subtlties and makes some pretty bad conclusions from
   > these misunderstandings too, which is why I find the article as 
   > a whole a bit misleading.

Can you think of anything in particular?  I didn't get that impression
at all, and the feeling I picked up from books like _Cryptonomicon_ is
that he knows a great deal about Unix.

   > The car dealership analogy is cool though, and often quoted/copied.

And the Eloi/Morlock _The Time Machine_ analogy.  :-)

- Chris.
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