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Title: Ugly and Obtusely written examples and text.
Review: For being one of the top computer gurus, this person sure writes some ugly code. Many if not most of the code samples are broken. Also he uses cryptic variable names (a, b, c, x...) and bad coding form in general (most variables are global). This would be fine if this was not a text for Learning algorithms. (looks like the example code was run through a Fortran to Pascal to C converter) On the other hand, I found many of the illustrations very helpful in figuring out what he was trying to say with text. If this book was not required for my class I would not have bought it. I found Numerical Recipes in C to be more useful.
