Charlez Petzold makes the following lament in response to Jeff Atwood’s review of two WPF books, one being Petzold’s. I’ve been mulling over Coding Horror’s analysis of two WPF books, not really thrilled about it, of course. The gist of it is that modern programming books should have color, bullet points, boxes, color, snippets, pictures, color, scannability, and color. Does that remind you of anything? Apparently the battle for the future of written communication is over. Prose is dead. PowerPoint has won. With all due respect to Mr. Petzold, and he certainly deserves much respect, I...