Re: A good book

Chris Smith wrote:

Hi,

Let's say you met someone who has a strong mathematical background, a long history of development of mainly business application software, a perfectly fine understanding of writing SQL queries in practical settings. This person understands that OO languages are somewhat arbitrary, but not particularly convinced that they are evil. Similarly, he is not convinced of the need for writing significant amounts of code in declarative style, nor that the existence of a simple formal mathematical model behind relational databases is necessarily exploitable to produce better software. Let's further say that you could get said person to read one book. What would it be?

(Yes, this is somewhat autobiographical...)

That's a difficult one. I don't know whether I would say Fabian Pascal's _Practical Issues..._ or Date/Darwen's _TTM_ or maybe one of Date's earlier _Writings..._ books.

Perhaps it would be better to just direct him to the EWD archive at utexas.
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