Linked by Owen Anderson on Thu 27th Nov 2003 05:25 UTC
"Code Reading: An Open Source Perspective", by Diomidis Spinellis, is a new kind of book. It's a foray into a domain normally left untouched by Computer Science texts and exemplifies yet another positive contribution from the Open Source movement. Simply put, Code Reading is a detailed discussion of the techniques required to read and maintain both good and bad code. As an interesting twist, the author draws on projects from the Open Source world to provide examples, both good and bad.
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You can gain such a rich insight into the computer cultural biases and heritage of a programmer by looking at the idioms, conventions, and structure of her source code. I'd be interested to know if this book discusses the cultural histories of programming style at all?
-braddock