On 04/02/2015 07:17 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote:
Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls
books, and have a trip down memory lane. I bet 95% of those are still
useful, even if they refer to much earlier versions of language(s).
Yes, the Pearls books should be required reading for all new
programmers. The lessons are pretty timeless, it's only the
languages that change - and most of his examples seem to be
in a kind of pseudo Pascal dialect rather than real code anyway.
I believe they've been re-released as a single volume now.
There was somewhere in one of the books a list of 'good practice,'
including an item something like:
Solve the right problem.
There's a world of wisdom in that one alone.
--
DaveA
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