Re: A good book

Chris Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Let's say you met someone who has a strong mathematical background, a
> long history of development of mainly business application software, a
> perfectly fine understanding of writing SQL queries in practical
> settings. This person understands that OO languages are somewhat
> arbitrary, but not particularly convinced that they are evil.
> Similarly, he is not convinced of the need for writing significant
> amounts of code in declarative style, nor that the existence of a simple
> formal mathematical model behind relational databases is necessarily
> exploitable to produce better software. Let's further say that you
> could get said person to read one book. What would it be?
>
> (Yes, this is somewhat autobiographical...)
>
> --
> Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer
> MindIQ Corporation

I can highly recommend Christ Date's "Database in Depth" (practical theory or some such thing). I also agree with Bob's suggestion about Date's "Writings books ..." They are pretty good too but if limited to just one book then I reckon DiD is it. Of course "The Third Manifesto" is a must read but I think it maybe futuristic? Dunno, haven't read that one ... (yet). Nah, I'd go with DiD.

Cheers. Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 15:04:32 CEST