From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Chris Kuan Subject: Code Complete (Was: Re: Why C++ is successful) Date: 1998/08/12 Message-ID: <35D136CD.BE6@sig.please>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380317566 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6qfhri$gs7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35cb8058.645630787@news.ne.mediaone.net> <35D01FCA.236B46F6@gmx.net> Followup-To: comp.software-eng Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: None Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: look@sig.please Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: (read in c.l.e; followups to c.s-e) Jeffrey C. Dege wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:41:14 +0200, stilcom@gmx.net wrote: > > > >Jeffrey C. Dege wrote: > > > >> If you're talking about Steve McGuire's books, (Code Complete, Writing > >> Solid Code), I'm a professional C programmer, and I didn't find anything > >> in them that I hadn't been aware of for many years. > >> > > > >The author of Code Complete is Steve McConnell. > > If so, then I have the books confused, as well as the authors. > > A few years back, I browsed through a copy of "Writing Solid Code", and > judged it to be a poorly organized mish-mash of supposedly "clever" > C++ tricks, many of which were worthless, and with no guidance > whatsoever as to when the ones that weren't would be appropriate. > > My opinion of this book was poor enough that when I saw Steve McConnell's > book "Code Complete", I confused the author with Maguire, and gave it a > pass. > > To tell the truth, I _still_ haven't read "Code Complete", but I have > read McConnell's "Rapid Development", and found it to be a very good > introduction to iterative and incremental development methodologies. "Code Complete" is a fat book about the same size as "Rapid Development", but white-ish in colour. I think "Writing Solid Code" is targeted at people with either little development experience or totally chaotic development processes (I haven't read it for a while, so maybe I have a false memory). I felel that experienced C or C++ coders should do at least as well as McGuire's practices. Although I have heard much criticism of this book (almost totally from programmers who I would consider vastly more experienced than me), I haven't followed any debate over specific points. -- Chris Kuan, BHP Information Technology Concatenate for email: mr gazpacho @ hotmail . com Phone : +61 2 4275 5555 Fax : +61 2 4275 5547 "A Design Pattern is something that got left out of the language" - Richard O'Keefe