Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think 9780596554675, 0596554672
How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading compute
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Table of contents :
Content: Beautiful Code
Preface
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact Us
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1. A Regular Expression Matcher
1.2. Implementation
1.3. Discussion
1.4. Alternatives
1.5. Building on It
1.6. Conclusion
2. Subversion & s Delta Editor: Interface As Ontology
2.2. Expressing Tree Differences
2.3. The Delta Editor Interface
2.4. But Is It Art?
2.5. Abstraction As a Spectator Sport
2.6. Conclusions
3. The Most Beautiful Code I Never Wrote
3.2. More and More with Less and Less
3.3. Perspective
3.4. What Is Writing?
3.5. Conclusion
3.6. Acknowledgments. 4. Finding Things4.2. Problem: Weblog Data
4.2.2. Putting Regular Expressions to Work
4.2.3. Content-Addressable Storage
4.2.4. Time to Optimize?
4.3. Problem: Who Fetched What, When?
4.3.2. Binary Search Trade-offs
4.3.3. Escaping the Loop
4.4. Search in the Large
4.4.2. Ranking Results
4.4.3. Searching the Web
4.5. Conclusion
5. Correct, Beautiful, Fast (in That Order): Lessons from Designing XML Verifiers
5.2. The P.
