Industrial Strength C++: Rules and Recommendations (Prentice Hall Series in Innovative Technology) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Erik Nyquist (Author)

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Taking the point of view that good rules make good programs, this text presents proven strategies for using and programming in the C++ object-oriented language in the form of easy-to-follow lists of rules and recommendations.

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This book greatly expands the public domain "Ellemtel" C++ coding standard. Guidelines have been carefully selected and consisely formulated to define a C++ coding standard that should be valid and usable for almost all programmers. Text and code examples explain each individual rule and recommendation. Adopting this book as the company C++ coding standard helps remove an obstacle when trying to be certified for ISO 9000 or CMM. The book covers naming conventions, code organization, resource management, class interface design, object-oriented programming, conversions, error handling, portability, coding style.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131209655
• ISBN-13: 978-0131209657
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,134,313 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely One of the Best, March 2, 2009

By	Emrys "Dreamer of Dreams, Enchanter of Souls" (Yoko, for those that know what that means.) - See all my reviews

The book itself has a long history from it's beginnings as a coding standard for an actual live company. Its authors were quick to convince their employers that it would be beneficial to the company and the community at large to make the document public. The rest is history.

It was translated to English and then released to the community, where it was torn down and tossed around and improved.

Even though there are various places where you can find this book online, it is definitely one that is worth having a physical copy of.

While some of the suggestions in this book do border on stylistic guidelines, the vast majority of it is geared towards making your code readable and easy to debug. The majority of what the author considers to be strictly stylistic is included in an individual appendix at the back of the book.

I will make one simple detracting comment. Some of the information is potentially outdated. The only reason I say this however, is that the book makes the assumption that some operating systems will only support 8.3 format file names. Now that Microsoft Windows has full support for long file names, and Linux has had such support for as long as most of us can remember, this will not often be the case.

These warnings are still good to take into account at times however, as they will let us remember that not every system will be as we expect.

Hands down, I would suggest that every C++ programmer get a copy of this book for their collection.