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The book looks excellent - I have already gone through the chapters for error handling and testing. They seem very informative.
The only slight drawback I see here is that the book has been written keeping in mind developers from all languages - C, C++, Java, C# - what have you, so essentially you are reading a few things going, “how often does that happen to me?” or finding a few things completely irrelevant to what you work with - case in point, the advice to make sure your function parameters always match the signature - Java, the language I work with doesn’t allow you to do that - it won’t compile.
Such nit-picking aside, it is turning out to be a great read. More as I complete it.
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It isn’t really possible to write a book that offers clues to writing “excellent” code in all possible languages. For one thing. Java/C# aside, the language semantics vary greatly to offer any sort of comparison. What is idiomatic in one language may not even be possible in another (lambdas/closures in functional programming languages like LISP/oCaml may be emulated really badly in C#/C++ but the end result will be messier than a dog’s breakfast).
This particular has had a bad rap from all over. Who tricked you into buying this one?
Posted by: Dilip at December 28, 2006 3:06 PM