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Title: Very poor treatment of the subject
Review: In two words, it sucks. I need to develop real world applications, not rewrite 'diff' in Java. This book offers me nothing more than hints about how to address the tasks at hand. I have found myself relying almost exclusively on Sun's Java documentation, and programming examples, to get what I need. I keep trying to use this book as a reference, but am mostly just wasting my time when I do so. 'Mastering Java 2' will make a good back-stop for target practice.If it were not for the fact that I _know_ Java is a superb development tool, this book would persuade me to return to C/C++.
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