Steve Oualline

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Steve Oualline lives in Southern California, where he works as a software engineer for a major phone company. In his free time he is a real engineer on the Poway Midland Railroad. Steve has written almost a dozen books on programming and Linux software. His web site is http://www.oualline.com .

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Wicked Cool Perl Scripts (No Starch) by Steve Oualline February 2006 Print: $29.95	How Not to Program in C++ (No Starch) by Steve Oualline April 2003 Print: $24.95
Practical C++ Programming by Steve Oualline Second Edition December 2002 Print: $39.95 Ebook: $31.99 (3) (Read Reviews)	Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline Third Edition August 1997 Print: $34.95 (4) (Read Reviews)
Practical C++ Programming by Steve Oualline August 1995 OUT OF PRINT (4) (Read Reviews)	Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline Second Edition November 1993 OUT OF PRINT (Read Reviews)

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Electronic Archaeology
Publish Date: Apr. 29, 2003It takes time to make a good mess. Programs start out simple, but then the code evolves (or devolves) over the years. Different people work on it, and it appears many of them knew very little about programming. The result for professional programmers is having to deal with badly designed, badly implemented, uncommented, incomprehensible blobs. The art of digging through ancient, muddled code is called "electronic archaeology," and this article, by Steve Oualline, author of Practical C++ Programming, 2nd Edition, discusses some of the tools you can use to make your code "digs" easier.

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