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Title: M Programming: A Comprehensive Guide by Richard F. Walters ISBN: 1-55558-167-6 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 05 June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: So many typos and bad text formating
Comment: This book does a good job of explaining the reasoning behind the language's (sometimes strange) behavior--most of the time, anyway. The book suffers from numerous typos in the code fragments. Also, it would be nice to have a nice reference section where each command's syntax is explaned succinctly; this is important, especially because M is not a free-form language, i.e., the white spaces are significant.
Rating: 4
Summary: M programming - A comprehensive Guide
Comment: This book provides the needed instruction for a beginner with no knowledge to learn the fundamentals of M programming. Combine the book with a free M program downloaded from the internet and you are on your way to becomming a beginning programmer.
Rating: 5
Summary: The book I've been waiting for.
Comment: M is a delightful applications language. Recently I've been struggling with C++ STL, trying to use the "map" container to get perhaps a tenth of the functionality you get from an ordinary M variable, and, believe me, I miss M.
This is the M book we've all been waiting for, and it delivers exactly what it promises. It is, as the blurb says, "the only source M programmers at all levels need."
The style and presentation reminds me a little of Stoustrup's book on C++: the organization and style are tutorial, but not elementary. It is up-to-date with the current standard.
What I particularly admire about it, and what is all too rare in computer books (especially those written by professors of computer science) is that it displays an intelligent awareness of real-world commercial implementations of M. Too many books either describe a pure-standards abstraction on the one hand, or a specific vendor extension on the other. Walters identifies popular M implementations by name and calls attention to variations where appropriate. Like M itself, Walters' book is directed at real programmers trying to solve real problems in the real world.
There are a few places where one can see that the book is an (extensive) rewrite of his older book, rather than a completely new work. I thought it was harder to locate the "argumentless DO" than it should have been, and I felt there should have been a coherent discussion in one place explaining the (historically weird) relations between the various forms of DO, and when $T is and isn't stacked. Similarly, it is disconcerting to see on page 199 that the "NEW" command is described as a "recent extension... not yet formally included in the standard." These are cosmetic problems that do not seriously mar the book I've been waiting for.
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Title: The Complete MUMPS : An Introduction and Reference Manual for the MUMPS Programming Language by John Lewkowicz ISBN: 0131621254 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 31 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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Title: Object-Oriented Application Development Using the Cache Postrelational Database (With CD-ROM) by Wolfgang Kirsten, Michael Ihringer, Peter Schulte ISBN: 3540673199 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $88.95 |
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Title: The OpenVMS User's Guide by Patrick Holmay ISBN: 1555582036 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 20 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $57.95 |
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Title: Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET by Anne Prince ISBN: 1890774154 Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide by Craig Larman ISBN: 0131111558 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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