Multi-Paradigm Design for C++

by James O. Coplien

Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ offers insight into an analysis and design process that takes advantage of C++'s multiple paradigm capability. It uses understandable notation and readable explanations to help all C++ programmers - not just system architects and designers - combine multiple paradigms in their application development for more effective, efficient, portable, robust, and reusable software.
Readers will gain an understanding of domain engineering methods that support multi-paradigm design. This book reveals how to analyze the application domain, using principles of commonality and variation, to define subdomains according to the most appropriate paradigm for each. Multi-paradigm design digs deeper than any single technology or technique to address fundamental questions of software abstraction and design.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 1998

Reviews

[Richard Fabian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is difficult to rate fairly as even though there's some very good stuff in there, it's very difficult to read. I think it could have been half the size and been more effective at passing on the important information about the subject.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gave me another perspective on design patterns through commonality / variability analysis.
I find cva incredibly useful when looking at context and forces for design patterns. Bain references Copes work in "Emergent Design" as well, which I'm a fan of.

Nothing against the concepts in the book, which are worthwhile, but I should also mention that I struggled through this one. Not sure if it was the style of the prose or the sheer density of information on the pages, but it was a slog.