Beautiful Code. Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
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Author(s): A. Oram and G. Wilson (Eds)
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596510047
Format: softback
593pp
Price: $44.99
Review Date: 02 October 2007
Review: The editors of Beautiful Code have gathered together 38 master coders from diverse backgrounds from all over the world to dissect and discuss the most beautiful bit of code that they know. This might be a small detail of some elegantly-crafted software or a look at the big picture, the structure as a whole. Chapters include: Lessons fro designing XML verifiers; Beautiful tests; On-the-fly code of image processing; :Quest fro accelerated population count; Secure communication; Beautiful code in BioPerl; The design of the gene sorter; The Linux kernel driver model; Multidimensional iterators in NumPy; Enterprise system for NASA’s Mars Rover mission; ERPs5; Syntactic abstraction; and Beautiful debugging.