Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@hcx2.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Grady Booch's OOD book is excellent! Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 90 11:37:24 GMT References: <272@unf7.UUCP> <1472@calmasd.Prime.COM> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 40 In-reply-to: wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM's message of 28 Jun 90 15:40:32 GMT >>>>> Regarding Re: Grady Booch's OOD book is excellent!; wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walter Peterson) adds: wlp> Yes, Grady Booch's new book is very good, but aside from the minor wlp> complaints that are normal for any book, I have one VERY major wlp> complaint. wlp> The type face that is used for example code is HORRID! There is wlp> absolutely no space what so ever between the characters. This running wlp> together of characters is bad enough for the normal type, on boldface wlp> it is almost unreadable. Yep, the book is excellent (especially having examples in lots of different object systems C++, CLOS, etc), but I object to more than just the font for examples. The copyright page says: Camera-ready copy for this book was prepared on a Macintosh II using Microsoft Word and Adobe Illustrator. I think the whole book format and layout is suffering from a fairly bad case of rampant featurism. There are boxes and lines around everything (even boxes that are split across pages no less). Absolutely everything has its own different font. It's not printed in pink and green ink, but it sometimes comes close to being that distracting. Personally, I would tend to blame the publisher for this (Benjamin/Cummings). Publishers are supposed to employ editors and book designers whose job it is to make the book look good without distracting the reader from the actual content. I think they fell down on the job on this one. Nevertheless, the book itself seems to be pretty good, although I am far from finished reading it. -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Webster's definition of obscene: Offensive to decency.) | +====================================================================+