Code Quality
by Diomidis Spinellis · first published 2006
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…ratings, and that as an author, he is very unfairly judged. So I am adding these three to this thread. "Code Reading: Open Source Perspective" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529511.Code_Reading "Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169414.Code_Quality "Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26720867-effective-debug...
on “Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?” ↗I don't own it anymore so I cannot really say if it's still relevant today, but maybe Spinellis' Code Reading (and its follow up Code Quality) ?
on “Ask HN: Time to read those programming books?” ↗…can lead to bad reputation I think (of course the state of the economy is not his fault) :) Diomidis Spinellis is an alpha geek and a great scientist. He has written great books such as Code Reading, Code Quality and he is also a FreeBSD committer.
on “What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard” ↗Diomidis Spinellis has written two books (Code Reading and Code Quality) on this subject that take you through annotated examples of industrial strength systems code (mostly from BSD IIRC): http://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/
on “Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?” ↗