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5.0�toiles sur 5 Small and Classic, Avril 3 2002

Par	Y. Cheng (Mountain View, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

A book for every programmer, you can finish it in half an hour but the insight helps in your whole programming life.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 All programmers should buy this book, Oct. 13 2001

Par	A Williams "honestpuck" (Neutral Bay, NSW Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

I firmly believe that computer programming is a craft, perhaps an art but certainly not a science. As you learn the craft you need to learn the wisdom of those that have gone before you. This book becomes essential.

It spells out, first with a counter example found in a piece of code published elsewhere and then with the code rewritten, over 70 pearls of wisdom that should be engraved into our consciousness; for many years every morning when I logged on to start work as a commercial Unix programmer one of these rules was randomly chosen as my message of the day, if I didn't understand the short rule I dragged out the book and refreshed my memory.

Brian Kernighan has co-authored three books almost essential to learning our craft, this volume, "Software Tools" and "The Unix Programming Environment". "Elements of Programming Style" spells out the fundamental rules, "Software Tools" shows you how to apply them to a number of simple projects and extends the rules to software design and finally "The Unix Programming Environment" shows you how to use them in an operating system designed to reward you for your effort.

The examples in either PL/I or Fortran expound the simple rules clearly and expertly in a manner typical of Kernighan's writing. That the languages used are old and most of the rules long accepted lore are not a drawback to this volume. Anyone who knows C, Pascal or even Perl should easily understand the code and programmers turn out code just as bad today in any number of languages.

These things make this book highly recommended reading for anyone who wishes to call them self "programmer." A final word of warning, don't lend this book to anyone, you'll never get it back - I've bought four copies so far.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 The examples are dated but great background material, Jui 26 2001

Par	David B. Horvath (Aston, PA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

As the name implies, this is about the elements of programming style. The examples are a bit dated (old languages, not C/C++/Java/the-next-great-language). But this isn't a *language* programming book, it is about how to write good programs in any language.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A classic programming book
Published in 1978. 168 pages. These 77 rules represent the definitive basis of good programming style and best programming practices. Read more

Publi� le F�v 15 2001 par Daniel Mall

4.0�toiles sur 5 Atrocious code is still with us!
The most interesting thing about Kernighan & Plauger's collection is that they took their bad examples from published textbooks and articles. Read more

Publi� le F�v 7 2000 par Conrad H. Weisert

4.0�toiles sur 5 Many programmers could still benefit from reading this book
This book presents rules for writing clear, efficient, organized code that is easy to read and understand. Read more

Publi� le Sep 4 1998

4.0�toiles sur 5 Still an excellent book after all these years.
Despite its age, this book still has much to offer that other books, like Writing Solid Code, miss. Read more

Publi� le Ao� 25 1998 par Ralph Corderoy