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From: bob@pdn.UUCP (Bob Hickle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Request for book review : OOP books
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Date: 26 May 88 14:03:44 GMT
Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida
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I have recently received a flyer from Prentice Hall advertising
the following two books on object oriented design.  Has anyone
out there read these books?  If so, how about posting a brief
book review.  Opinions welcome.  Are these books worth the price?

The books:

Object-oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer.
[Date unknown], 534 pages, cloth book.
Price on the flyer is $31.45 (a 15% discount).

    [ This book appears to present o-o concepts and design
      using the Eiffel programming language for its examples.
      It is a long book.  Is quantity = quality here?  Is
      this just an advertisement for Eiffel? ]

Object-oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling The World In Data
by Sally Shlaer and Stephen Mellor.
April 1988, 160 pages, paper book.
Price on the flyer is $19.55 (a 15 % discount).

    [ Sounds like an attempt to describe how to model the
      real world in terms of an information model, which
      is then represented as a set of data relationships. ]

Any info on these books would be appreciated.
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