It's a second edition, not a new book -- why did you feel deceived? There's a fair bit of restructuring of the first few chapters, and a whole new chapter on exploratory data analysis (which uses the new CSV support) and a bunch of new stuff about the new Unicode-character support.
Then certainly that my expectations were too high from what I'd read in the reviews, I was expecting a lot of changes like the second edition of the dragon book. You can see that some programs were obviously written to get around the memory limitations of the computers of the time, such as the assembler and emulator for an imaginary machine.
I really appreciate his work. He had a full life. Since yesterday, without knowing, I was just studying a section of a book detailing the code generation of one of the first Pascal compilers for the CDC 6400.
unrealted to this thread, I know, but yes, thank you. I despise when the top results and the casual links to support something turn out to be videos. I don't want to stop everything I'm doing to dedicate 100% of my attention to something on a fixed take-up time schedule. Give me a text I can scan while my other audio keeps playing, thank you!
I played it on a 486DX33 in 1993. This game left a deep impression on me. I recently bought the CD-i version for 50 cents, found in a second-hand CD bin. I don't have the console to play it (yet) but the second CD is an audio CD and contains the soundtrack.
