Re: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com> wrote:

[snip]

>Right. That was a knee-jerk reaction to UML book somebody nominated.
>Database people would easily trade a stack of UML books to a decent database
>text.

     Not true at all. I am keeping my UML text as an example of how horrible a textbook can be. It was not all bad though, just the part dealing with UML. The C++ portion was OK. Two authors, two areas, one suspicion on my part.

>P.S. Thank's god nobody mentioned "Learning XML in 21 minutes" by Bill
>Quickbuck yet.

     And it only *seems* like 21 days?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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