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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful Date: 1998/08/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380309852 References: <6qfhri$gs7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35cb8058.645630787@news.ne.mediaone.net> <35D01FCA.236B46F6@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:59:41 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- "[I]n fact, I didn't know that cats _could_ grin." "They all can," said the Duchess; "and most of 'em do." "I don't know of any that do," Alice said very politely, feeling quite pleased to have gotten into a conversation. "You don't know much," said the Duchess; "and that's a fact."