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From: tel@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ted Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Reuseable data structures?
Summary: Meyer's book and Eiffel
Message-ID: <544@cf-cm.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 20:40:53 GMT
References: <4800034@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <534@cf-cm.UUCP> <502@poseidon.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. Coll. Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
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In article <502@poseidon.UUCP>, ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) writes:
> B.Meyer just published (8/88) a comprehensive book on Object-oriented
> programming;

Yes the book is "Object-Oriented Software Construction", Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-629031-0. Quite a refreshing look at OO and probably a good
introduction to the subject since the confusing method/message terminology
spawned by the Smalltalk community is missing. Instead Meyer talks in terms
of procedures and functions providing a convenient little stepping
stone into OO for those who are long steeped in conventional development
methods. Most of the examples are in Eiffel of course though there is a
short review of other languages which includes hints on how to construct
object-oriented software if all you've got is Fortran...hmmm.

Big (533 pages) and well written though there's more than one typo
and some of the illustrations suggest that his mouse needs oiling.

Re: Eiffel, we installed it last January but nobody here's found the time to
take it for a good long walk yet. Has anyone else had a go?

And is there a chance that whoever or whatever it is up there that sets
up news groups who could instigate a comp.lang.Eiffel for us ? Pal for life.


(my views etc.)						Ted Lawson

	"The lost object is always in the last place you look."