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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Leftovers" but still good enough
Programming Pearls is far superior to this one. However, I still consider this one as much better than the usual programming books (and anyway is pretty short).
Published 12 months ago by Marc Magrans De Abril
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Leftovers from Programming Pearls
This book follows the same format as the original Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press), but the content is very different. Where Programming Pearls has a strong focus on performance and algorithms, this book is a mixed bag. It presents articles on practical things like profiling (pre-gprof), associative arrays, how to represent data in text (pre-XML), a collection...
Published on January 12, 2009 by Johan Kotlinski
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (Paperback)
This book follows the same format as the original Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press), but the content is very different. Where Programming Pearls has a strong focus on performance and algorithms, this book is a mixed bag. It presents articles on practical things like profiling (pre-gprof), associative arrays, how to represent data in text (pre-XML), a collection of computer science quotes, the Pic language, creating graphs (pre-Excel)...
Compared to the timeless puzzles and mind expanders of Programming Pearls, the practical nature of these articles make them susceptible to aging. There is some interesting stuff - for example it was nice to get an introduction to the Pic language. But it's by no means an essential book. I don't regret getting it, but if I lost it, I wouldn't get a new copy.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Leftovers" but still good enough,
This review is from: More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (Paperback)
Programming Pearls is far superior to this one. However, I still consider this one as much better than the usual programming books (and anyway is pretty short).
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More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder by Jon Louis Bentley (Paperback - January 11, 1988)
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