On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:47:20 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > As far as I'm concerned, the definitive work in this area is Meyer's > "Object Oriented Software Construction". He covers pretty much all the > uses of OO language features, using a language that was designed > specifically to support those uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup recommends it, but notes "Tends to confuse Eiffel with universal principles." > Be warned that after reading it, > you're liable to come back to Python and wonder "Why doesn't Python do > X". Meyer is too much of a fundamentalist for me, so much of the book just pisses me off. I expect that many Python programmers would feel the same way, Python being the way it is. It's still worth reading though -- especially the part on design by contract. And all his vicious attacks on things you happen to dislike, too ;-) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
