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From: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <caliban@darklock.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:21:59 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Greg Munt wrote:
>
> I know some of you have some reasonably-sized libraries, so I was
> wondering if you might be able to recommend some books for me?
>
> Topics:
>
> OOD
Read Grady Booch.
> Compiler design
Allen I. Holub, 'Compiler Design in C'. Best I've ever found. And the
dragon book, of course, the author of which eludes me; was it Aho?
> Database design (esp persistence)
>
> Tree algorithms (esp R-Trees, et al) (all I can find are general
> algorithm books that discuss binary trees - sigh)
I'm completely lost on both topics, unfortunately.
> Parser/NLP design
Holub's book covers this pretty well.
> Memory management (perhaps)
Memory management is simple. Ask for it when you need it; make sure you
have it before you use it; return it when you're done; and don't try to
use it after it's been returned. Easy. That's pretty much it. If you're
interested in the real low levels, I read a rather detailed treatment of
it in a book on designing operating systems, but I forget the name of
it... so check around for books on operating system design, I guess. And
there was a book called 'The Zen of Code Optimisation' which had some
tips in it.