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C++ Coding Standards : 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices (C++ in Depth Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: Herb Sutter
ReleaseDate: 25 October, 2004
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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101 rules, guidelines and best practices
" For the 20% who would argue that a "guideline" isn't etched in stone, the rest of us need not worry. The book clearly pushes forth a lot of pragmatic content that should be thoroughly adopted by the 80-percentile of all programmers "out there.

It is easy to appreciate the authors' collective expertise and listen intently to the common sense and lessons learned through their experiences--all nicely wrapped up in this convenient package.

Inside are numerous quotations (proverbs?) that speak to the common sense of this book, such as: "If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. "

In some ways, one may think that this book competes with Meyers' "Effective" series. While there certainly is some overlap, in a world plagued with bad code and bad coding standards and practices, one can argue that there can not be enough emphasis on raising the bar.

This book clearly puts forth a bar and explains the why's and why not's of its placement. I encourage every C++ programmer to buy and read this book cover-to-cover.

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Excellent resource for C++ Software Engineers
As with Sutter's other books and columns things are very solid from a technical perspective. The book presents some excellent fodder for a developing a project's coding standards. Every project would need to evaluate these and other rules/guidelines for themselves (for example embedded projects may have different rules than other applications).

Many good ideas but have some critical errors
Book is good but you must know about errors and book must have bugtraq. I'm not knocking this book down. .