Useful book, but could be better

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Book:		Managing Projects with GNU Make
Subject:		Useful book, but could be better
Date:		2007-09-02 06:56:21
From:		Anonymous Reader

Rating: I have found this book useful though not as much interesting as I expected. I believe this book can be a good addition to the GNU make manual. There are certain things that are better explained in the book, but many others where the manual is superior. If you doubt whether you want to read this book then you may look at examples to see if there is something interesting in them -- something that you don't know yet. The book assumes that a reader is at least vaguely familiar with C and Lex. So when the author presents his examples, he does not stop to explain that main() is the entry point of C program or that yylex() is the main function of a scanner, which reads tokens.