Techniques of Program Structure and Design (Hardcover)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 364 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (February 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013901702X
• ISBN-13: 978-0139017025
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,735,176 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Thanks E. W.!, September 12, 2007

By	Nicholas Charles Ralabate "3.9.1.1" (Atlanta) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I haven't been able to find this book in print, but it has one of the most entertaining peer reviews I have ever read:

An example of hilarious nonsense can be found on page 281 where "it seems that the number [...] of bugs increases exponentially with the number of instructions in the module." This tells us that by making a module large enough we can achieve that the number of bugs exceeds the number of instructions in the module, nay, even exceeds the number of bits needed to store these instructions! The frightening thing about this piece of nonsense, however, is that , in spite of an earlier chapter on "Modular Programming" --of more than 40 pages-- the author still thinks he can meaningfully speak of "the number of bugs in a module". If he had used that earlier chapter to develop a meaningful concept "module", he would have discovered that the "number of bugs in a single module" is either zero or one, i.e. the module is either correct or not. In the latter case, counting their number is as meaningless as counting the number of misspellings in the names of the well-known authors in computer science "Ivan Yourdon" or "Niklaus Hoare".

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Will I be purchasing it? Hmm...