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    From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to alt.folklore.computers on Sun Aug 31 01:54:40 2025
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    From the Web:

    |Charles Wetherell, "|etudes for Programmers", 1978, Prentice
    |Hall. (It's out of print and available from Amazon for $427.
    |I'm going to have to start locking up my old books.)
    .


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  • From Al Kossow@aek@bitsavers.org to alt.folklore.computers on Sat Aug 30 19:14:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers

    On 8/30/25 6:54 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
    From the Web:

    |Charles Wetherell, "|etudes for Programmers", 1978, Prentice
    |Hall. (It's out of print and available from Amazon for $427.
    |I'm going to have to start locking up my old books.)
    .


    Used bookseller positive feedback price inflation.
    You will notice only one or two are available and
    the auto-pricing robots get into a positive feedback
    loop.


    I also notice it isn't on the Internet Archive which
    just makes the situation worse.
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  • From Al Kossow@aek@bitsavers.org to alt.folklore.computers on Sat Aug 30 19:17:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers

    On 8/30/25 7:14 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
    On 8/30/25 6:54 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
    -a-a From the Web:

    |Charles Wetherell, "|etudes for Programmers", 1978, Prentice
    |Hall. (It's out of print and available from Amazon for $427.
    |I'm going to have to start locking up my old books.)
    .


    Used bookseller positive feedback price inflation.
    You will notice only one or two are available and
    the auto-pricing robots get into a positive feedback
    loop.


    I also notice it isn't on the Internet Archive which
    just makes the situation worse.

    https://github.com/archermarx/etudes/blob/main/Etudes%20for%20Programmers.pdf


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