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Fourth Edition
David Salomon
With Contributions by Giovanni Motta and David Bryant
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plete Reference
Fourth Edition
Professor David Salomon (emeritus)
Computer Science Department
California State University
Northridge, CA 91330-8281
USA
Email: david.******@
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2006931789
ISBN-10: 1-84628-602-6 e-ISBN-10: 1-84628-603-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-602-5 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-603-2
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To Wayne Wheeler, an editor par excellence
Write your own story. Don’t let others write it for you.
Chinese fortune-cookie advice
Preface to the
Fourth Edition
I was pleasantly surprised when in November 2005 a message arrived from Wayne
Wheeler, the puter science editor of Springer Verlag, notifying me