Path: utzoo!mnetor!spectrix!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Is it Art or is it Engineering (Clarifications)
Message-ID: <2253@geac.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 20:42:16 GMT
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Summary: About handbooks...

In article <32637UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>I have always wondered why there are so few software "handbooks" to go
>along with all the engineering handbooks.  There are lots and lots
>of little "standard" components in any big program, for example:
>     
>o sort list in memory with good average time performance
>     
  Well, I've seen about two:
Rodgers, David F., "Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics", New
York (McGraw-Hill) 1985.

... and I lent my Hopity-and-somebody data structures book out, so I
can't give a citation for it.

  Rare, but not unknown.

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