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Title: Pretty Bad
Review: This book was horrible. It's a real shame too, because David Gelernter is a fairly competent writer. He has a good idea, but I think his publisher dropped the ball here.Gelernter is talking about elegance in computing. He starts out by discussing old radios, and telephones, and even cars. In the first couple of chapters Gelernter does a wonderful job of stating his point, and starts providing very good arguments in favor.Somewhere towards the end of the first section of the book, Gelernter start with the Apple vs. Microsoft debate. He shows that he is a Mac fan, and spends much of the rest of the whining about the fact that Microsoft seems to have won. Go figure.
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