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House, Ronald
Darling Downs Inst. of Adv. Educ.
Toowoomba, Australia
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  Multi-paradigm design for C++
Coplien J., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1999. 280 pp.  Type: Book (9780201824674), Reviews: (2 of 2)

This is an intriguing book about design principles as applied toprojects programmed in C++. As such, it contains elements that are morespecific than is usual for texts on analysis or design. The authorexplains his own theories on desig...

Jun 1 1999  
  C and C++ code capsules
Allison C., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998.  Type: Book (9780135917855)

The cover blurb states that this book is based on articles written for a regular journal column. This is apparent in that material written from the outset for a book would usually have more coherence, but this does not overly detract f...

Aug 1 1998  
  C++ and object-oriented programming
Irvine K., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.  Type: Book (9780023598524)

Programmers in non-object-oriented languages who want to learn C++ and the object-oriented method are the intended audience for this book. The coverage integrates object orientation with C++ topics. Chapter topics include classes, func...

Feb 1 1998  
  Object-oriented software engineering with Eiffel
Jézéquel J., Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1996.  Type: Book (9780201633818)

Object-oriented programming and the Eiffel language are described in this book, and their unique features are related to the field of software engineering. Chapter 1 is an overview. Chapters 2 through 5 describe Eiffel in the context o...

Jun 1 1997  
  Object-oriented programming in Eiffel
Thomas P., Weedon R. (ed), Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1995.  Type: Book (9780201593877)

This is a clear and complete exposition of Bertrand Meyer’s object-oriented software development methods. It departs from the format of other books on object orientation in that it does not launch immediately into a discussio...

Jan 1 1997  
  Static dependent costs for estimating execution time
Reistad B., Gifford D. ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers VII(3): 65-78, 1994.  Type: Article

Reistad presents a method for statically estimating program execution time in this excellent and readable paper. It can be added to any statically typed polymorphic programming language, and thereby provides yet another illustration of...

Nov 1 1995  
  Migrating to Fortran 90
Kerrigan J., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1993.  Type: Book (9781565920491)

Programmers who are working with existing FORTRAN 77 applications and intend to progress to Fortran 90 are the intended audience for this book. It covers all the differences between the two versions of FORTRAN, including the relation b...

Dec 1 1994  
  Symbolic computing with Lisp
Cameron R., Dixon A., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992.  Type: Book (9780138778460)

Anyone wishing to develop skills in writing symbolic computing applications will be interested in this book. Intended as a one-semester third-year course, it comes with a Small Lisp interpreter on disk, and covers topics including symb...

Apr 1 1994  
  User-friendly syntax: design and presentation
Henno J. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 28(5): 551-572, 1988.  Type: Article

This poorly written paper contains little material of significant interest. Commencing with yet another look at the inconsistencies of Ada (in this case declarative syntax), the author moves on to describe experiments using three mini-...

Jun 1 1989  
  FORTRAN 8x explained
Metcalf M., Reid J., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780198537311)

This is an informal, readable description of the current state of the draft FORTRAN 8x language standard. The authors say it is written as a textbook, but it lacks significant programming examples and follows a feature-by-feature layou...

Dec 1 1988  
 
 
 
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