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2009/7/22 Jacob <[log in to unmask]>: >> These are books that I have come back to time and time again. They >> contain treasures worth a hundred time more than whatever currently >> trendy Design Pattern is being pushed by this month's hot book. > > You surely don't mean the GoF classic here, do you? It's a must-have > for anyone doing serious OOP, be it Java/C# or C++. It's a rather > demanding lecture and one should stay away from it unless he really > feels needing it :). It's known to do more harm than good at times. > Nevertheless, It does save you from re-inventing the wheel each time > you have a particular design problem. No, I didn't have the the GoF book in mind! Maybe I should have taken a little longer of crafting that sentence, and eliminated the not-really-relevant reference to Patterns -- my target was really flavour-of-the-month stuff that everyone will have forgotten in 2010. Whatever the GoF book's faults, it has at least demonstrated longevity.