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Have you actually read CC?

Another point: Which books deal with "the most interesting aspects of designing programs" in your opinion?

CC is a good book that's not steeped in programming terminology and is easy for even laypeople to understand. However it would've been nice for Steve to incorporate some code snippets from a functional language, just to compare and contrast how things are handled differently between paradigms.

I agree with the missing parts of the book (btw: anyone interested in that might find "Programming Language Pragmatics" by Michael Scott interesting), however, I think that there is not enough experience on using functional programming languages in an industrial/professional setting.

I've been a software developer since 1995. Take a wild guess as to whether I've read Code Complete.

I don't think it's a bad book.

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