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First of all, this book isn't about programming the PowerPC. It's about programming the Power*Mac*. And I am not simply being pedantic about the fact that IBM's platform isn't out yet. There are lots of interesting tidbits here about the concepts and details that make machines with the new chips backward- compatible with the MacOS. Lots of non-programmers might find this of interest as it explains some pointers on RISC, CISC, superscalar architecture, Toolkits, emulation and native modes, cross compilers and fat binaries. Even if you are referring only to the chip itself, this is not about programming the PowerPC. The discussion operates at a very high language level, and never deals with machine, or even assembler, coding. It doe... Rest of this review on the detail page
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This book is based on PowerBuilder 5.0 for Windows 95. The intended audience is stated to be experienced database programmers. In that case, some of the sections are simplistic to the point of being insulting, such as that covering the topic of client/server. On the other hand, a supposedly important distinctive of PowerBuilder is object-orientation. There are multiple chapters on object-oriented programming concepts, but the fundamentals are very poorly explained. As far as the general contents go, standard use of tools and scripting is presented clearly enough, but any advanced operations quickly become lost and confused. If the chapter end questions, mostly multiple choice definitions and fill-in-the-blank quotes, truly are mod... Rest of this review on the detail page
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As well as covering the POSIX threads extension API (Application Programming Interface)--Pthreads, for short--the authors have done a very good job of covering threaded and multitasking programming in general. The material looks at the advantages and benefits of threading, but also addresses the potential problems and areas where care must be taken. Explanations are readable, with a good deal of C source code to illustrate points. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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This book is intended for professional programmers who wish to add assembly to their suite of tools, or for beginning programmers who wish to start with assembly language. In either case, the structure of the work is more suited to the dedicated coder than to the hobbyist. Assembly tools, debuggers and integration with higher level languages is emphasized in a package presentation. The amateur might wish to get started with smaller, and less utilitarian, experiments. Nevertheless, this is a very complete coverage of Intel assembly language. Assembler instruction format, memory, data structures, program flow, BIOS and DOS services, keyboard, video, disks, peripherals, and resident programs all get discussed. Appendices provide usefu... Rest of this review on the detail page
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My own book first started life as a seminar outline and notes. It then developed into a serially published column on the net. In the second edition, I put in a lot of hours with the typesetting company, trying to determine the best format for printing not terribly well defined objects such as fully qualified domain names (FQDN) and URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). If I'd done the book (properly) in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) in the first place, a lot of this would have been a lot easier. A properly structured SGML document can be used to produce appropriate designations for, say, a URL in both a Usenet postings (which has very limited formatting possibilities) and a book (which has considerably more). It can also ma... Rest of this review on the detail page
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