Fahrenheit 451
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I finished my purge of old technical books. No I didn't burn any of them, although I did throw a couple in the recycling bin - among them the best .NET book I ever read: Advanced .NET Programming[^]. I kept only a couple of gems at home, among them Stepanov's Elements of Programming[^]and "Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrup. Most of them I just dumped at work - they range from good but outdated (Coplien's "Advanced C++") to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu, Gamma, Fowler).
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I finished my purge of old technical books. No I didn't burn any of them, although I did throw a couple in the recycling bin - among them the best .NET book I ever read: Advanced .NET Programming[^]. I kept only a couple of gems at home, among them Stepanov's Elements of Programming[^]and "Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrup. Most of them I just dumped at work - they range from good but outdated (Coplien's "Advanced C++") to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu, Gamma, Fowler).
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I finished my purge of old technical books. No I didn't burn any of them, although I did throw a couple in the recycling bin - among them the best .NET book I ever read: Advanced .NET Programming[^]. I kept only a couple of gems at home, among them Stepanov's Elements of Programming[^]and "Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrup. Most of them I just dumped at work - they range from good but outdated (Coplien's "Advanced C++") to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu, Gamma, Fowler).
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (...Fowler).
:laugh: Amen! Marc
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
bob16972 wrote:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
I heard Stroustrup himself saying that (he mentioned the Abrahams-Gurtovoy book[^] in the same context) at a Boston conference in 2008.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (...Fowler).
:laugh: Amen! Marc
I had a college professor that pretty much worshiped Martin Fowler... It was horrible... X|
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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CPallini wrote:
What about Sutter's, Meyers' ones?
Never had a hard copy of any of the Sutter's books, although I do enjoy his articles. As for Meyers, every single employer I worked for since 2000 had a few copies available so I never had to buy that either.
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I finished my purge of old technical books. No I didn't burn any of them, although I did throw a couple in the recycling bin - among them the best .NET book I ever read: Advanced .NET Programming[^]. I kept only a couple of gems at home, among them Stepanov's Elements of Programming[^]and "Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrup. Most of them I just dumped at work - they range from good but outdated (Coplien's "Advanced C++") to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu, Gamma, Fowler).
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Probably most, given the way devs tend to read. Oddly, I just finished this exact book this morning. It made me late for work!
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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I finished my purge of old technical books. No I didn't burn any of them, although I did throw a couple in the recycling bin - among them the best .NET book I ever read: Advanced .NET Programming[^]. I kept only a couple of gems at home, among them Stepanov's Elements of Programming[^]and "Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrup. Most of them I just dumped at work - they range from good but outdated (Coplien's "Advanced C++") to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu, Gamma, Fowler).
My youngest daughter mocked me the other day for having "Programming Sever-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000" on my bookshelf. I think I keep it for sentimental reasons.
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I finished my purge of old technical books. No I didn't burn any of them, although I did throw a couple in the recycling bin - among them the best .NET book I ever read: Advanced .NET Programming[^]. I kept only a couple of gems at home, among them Stepanov's Elements of Programming[^]and "Design and Evolution of C++" by Stroustrup. Most of them I just dumped at work - they range from good but outdated (Coplien's "Advanced C++") to brain-damaging and downright dangerous (Alexandrescu, Gamma, Fowler).
For some weird reason I thought Soylent Green instead of Farenheit 451 and your post made no sense at all! :-O
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH