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?
>

Software Engineering 1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540211497/qid=1152279879/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7095504-4905529?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Software Engineering 2
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540211500/qid=1152279935/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7095504-4905529?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Software Engineering 3
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540211500/qid=1152279935/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7095504-4905529?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

all by Dines Bjorner

The resident fanatics in both comp.object and comp.databases.theory would disapprove of this set of volumes which is good enough for me. Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 08:54:53 CDT