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Title: Fun, sketchy, and abstruse
Review: My experience in reading this book has been very much like: (1) Reading Dilbert -- It's a somewhat fun look at problems all to familiar to experienced developers and managers. (2) Reading someone's viewgraphs after missing the presentation -- The authors attempt to catalog the AntiPatterns, so many ideas are presented in bulleted form. Buzz words are perhaps overused, too. (3) Reading the Bible -- Many sentences are just too abstruse for me. A lot of effort is required to get the (apparently) *deeper* meaning.The book's greatest, lasting value will be in codifying the many recurring software development problems, and establishing a vocabulary for discussing them. I hope a later edition will correct some of the recondite language.
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