Exercises in Programming Style
"Exercises in Programming Style consists of over 30 renditions of the same simple program written in various programming styles. The book illustrates the richness of human computational thought, and the teachings that have been accumulated during more than fifty years of computer programming. These teachings are scattered around, and are mostly passed to new generations of programmers by mentoring and self-teaching. The book presents this knowledge in a package that can be understood and referenced by all programming professionals and students, so that they have a more global vision of the conceptual tools at their disposal"
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- As the sibling says, CL can be written in most any style. Which, I think it is fair to say for any general programming language? The book Exercises in Programming Style highlights that. That said, CL feels far friendlier to the various styles than other languages, to me.
Link to book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367350203
- You might want to check out Exercises in Programming Style (2nd Edition) by Cristina Videira Lopes.
It's a little known book that explores different ways of solving the same problem under different constraints.
- A little known book that many might find interesting is Cristina Lopes's Exercises in Programming Style which takes a single problem and solves it in 40 different ways using Python. [0]
https://www.amazon.com/Exercises-Programming-Style-Cristina-...
- You might enjoy the book "Exercises in Programming Style (Second Edition)" by Cristina Videira Lopes. It looks at how you can compute term frequency using 40 different coding patterns, explaining the how/why of each.
- I enjoy this sort of "one example, multiple different lenses" style of discussion. It reminds me of this book... Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Videira Lopes.
- See also a different comparison (on ~the same problem) at StackExchange: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/188133/bentleys...
(Copying from my comment the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26467684)
There's also a nice book "Exercises in Programming Style" about just this problem.
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