Books

Papers/Articles

Books : reviews

[cover]

Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented Software Construction. Prentice Hall. 1988

Rating: 2
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | passes the time | waste of time | unfinishable ]

An excellent introduction to OO software design from a formalist viewpoint, based around, but not dependent on, the Eiffel language.

[cover]

Bertrand Meyer. Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages. Prentice Hall. 1990

Rating: 2.5
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | passes the time | waste of time | unfinishable ]

Denotational and axiomatic semantics for the masses.

[cover]

Jean Bezivin, Bertrand Meyer, Jean-Marc Nerson. Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems: proceedings of TOOLS 2, Paris, 1990. Angkor. 1990

 

[cover]

Bertrand Meyer. Eiffel: the Language. Prentice Hall. 1992

Rating: 3
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | passes the time | waste of time | unfinishable ]

The book of the language, from its inventor, written in his usual discursive style. A good read for understanding the language, rather harder, but still possible, to use as a laguange reference.

[cover]

Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented Software Construction: 2nd edition. Prentice Hall. 1997

 

A complete reworking of the first edition, and extended to cover new areas. Some think this long-awaited second edition is not an improvement on its slimmer original. I haven't read it yet.

Papers/Articles : reviews

[no cover]

Bertrand Meyer. On Formalism in Specification. IEEE Software, 6-26. Jan. 1985

 

Introduces The Seven Sins of the Specifier