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    Slow Eddie
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    I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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      I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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      raddevus
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      Some things have larger nutshells, I guess. Just make sure you memorize that book, because it's just the basics you need to know to get started. :rolleyes:

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        I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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        Slacker007
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        Slow Eddie wrote:

        I only weigh 215llbs.

        everything is relative. To a Hobbit, you are the size of an elephant. To humans, if you are 6'5" you are at ideal weight.

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        • S Slow Eddie

          I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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          Paul Sanders the other one
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          It's a coconut.

          Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

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            It's a coconut.

            Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

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            OriginalGriff
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            Sea Coconut: The World's Largest Nut: The Seychelles Coco de Mer - Vanilla Vadz[^]

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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              Sea Coconut: The World's Largest Nut: The Seychelles Coco de Mer - Vanilla Vadz[^]

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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              Paul Sanders the other one
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              (Stifled laughter). Still can't quite bring myself to believe that's real. Perhaps it's not, this is the Google-sphere, after all.

              Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

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                I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                PIEBALDconsult
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                Maybe "C# on a grain of rice" would be more to your liking?

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                  (Stifled laughter). Still can't quite bring myself to believe that's real. Perhaps it's not, this is the Google-sphere, after all.

                  Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

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                  OriginalGriff
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                  Oh it's real! YouTube[^]

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                  • S Slow Eddie

                    I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                    The last real programming book I bought was Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008! IIRC it weighs in at 1400 pages...not light reading for sure! :laugh: The point is, I haven't had a need for printed material in the last 14 years. My bookshelf is full of programming books from my first 16 years in the trade, mostly from that era where online resources were either non-existent or not available on demand. Like it or not, Google (search engines in general) has completely transformed how I do my job, from learning something new to fixing bugs, many times both. Answers, articles, and video tutorials abound for just about anything you need. I hate to admit it, but there are many times where it's quicker/easier to find a code example online than in my own codebase! :laugh: The downside of this is that I constantly have to look up trivial stuff! Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that on any given day I might be working in multiple 'languages'. (if you count sql and javascript/css) Hmm, 1024 pages...do you think that number was a coincidence? :)

                    "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"

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                      Oh it's real! YouTube[^]

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      Paul Sanders the other one
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                      Just another of God's little jokes then. What a card he is.

                      Paul Sanders. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.

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                        The last real programming book I bought was Pro ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008! IIRC it weighs in at 1400 pages...not light reading for sure! :laugh: The point is, I haven't had a need for printed material in the last 14 years. My bookshelf is full of programming books from my first 16 years in the trade, mostly from that era where online resources were either non-existent or not available on demand. Like it or not, Google (search engines in general) has completely transformed how I do my job, from learning something new to fixing bugs, many times both. Answers, articles, and video tutorials abound for just about anything you need. I hate to admit it, but there are many times where it's quicker/easier to find a code example online than in my own codebase! :laugh: The downside of this is that I constantly have to look up trivial stuff! Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that on any given day I might be working in multiple 'languages'. (if you count sql and javascript/css) Hmm, 1024 pages...do you think that number was a coincidence? :)

                        "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"

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                        0x01AA
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                        Hmm, 1024 pages...do you think that number was a coincidence?

                        Yes, 256 of them where blank ;P :laugh:

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                          I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                          Super Lloyd
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                          It's one more proof, if one was needed, how simple is C#, in a Nutshell! :D Seriously, I love C#, I do think it's simple and elegant. But as I reflect on my.... 20 years opf working with.. I realized, over time, well.. there is so much to learn to really master it! :O :/ However, while the syntax had lots of additional complexity added since the day of C# 1.0 (generics, auto enumerable with yield, async/await, LINQ, lambda, pattern matching) the pure syntax is still relatively simple. What really gets you is the numerous essential API to do various task, such as Web App, Desktop APP (like 4 type of Windows desktop app?), console app, phone app, game, etc... :)

                          A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

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                            Some things have larger nutshells, I guess. Just make sure you memorize that book, because it's just the basics you need to know to get started. :rolleyes:

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                            Super Lloyd
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                            it's a coconut!!

                            A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

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                              I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                              David ONeil
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                              You lost an opportunity to say 'It is only a byte long!' Bim - tish!

                              Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

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                                I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                                David ONeil
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                                edit - You lost an opportunity to say "It is a bit over a byte long!"

                                Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++

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                                  I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                                  Jacquers
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                                  And it's probably (almost) outdated with C# 11 coming out now. * Not so much outdated as not including the latest features / syntax.

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                                    I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                                    Leo56
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                                    I used to have a copy of (I think) "C# 3 In a Nutshell" and believe that was about half the size of your book... Remember when C# was simple and easy to use before the CS nerds ;P got their claws into it? sigh...

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                                      Maybe "C# on a grain of rice" would be more to your liking?

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                                      Page 1 has 1 grain Page 2 has 2 grains Page 3 has 4 grains Page 4 has 8 grains Page 5 has 16 grains ... Page 64 has Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia[^]> grains

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                                        I just bought O'Reilly book "C#10 in a Nutshell" It is 1024 pages long!!!! :mad: :mad: :confused: :confused: :wtf: :wtf: If that is a "nutshell", then I am an elephant. BTW: I only weigh 215llbs. About 97.75 kilos for you east ponders.

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                                        CPallini
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                                        Slow Eddie wrote:

                                        It is 1024 pages long!!!!

                                        Wow!

                                        "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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                                          Slow Eddie wrote:

                                          It is 1024 pages long!!!!

                                          Wow!

                                          "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

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                                          Slow Eddie
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                                          Yes. And I am trying to get through it in a couple of weeks. Like trying to take a drink out of a firehose. :sigh: :-O

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