[taeric]

Amusingly, I thought Code Complete was disliked now? I thought it was fun, but definitely over sold on things.

I liked the other ones, even if I don't remember take aways from them at the moment.

I do reject the Knuth observation here. Annoyingly, most criticism you will ever see of a Knuth book are from people that never read them. Not that I don't get the point, as following closely behind that group are those that bought but never read them. Especially with the newer volumes, there are a lot of very fun topics covered.

And, sure, you are best not putting together many of the low level things that are covered in those books. But... you are also best not blindly following whatever is in the other books, too? Again, many folks dislike Code Complete for fairly solid reasons.

[Jtsummers]

Code Complete seems more forgotten than disliked these days (rarely mentioned, either for or against). Clean Code is the one that, when you mention it, brings out all the negative comments.

[taeric]

Ah, makes sense! I am pretty sure I've read them both. I'm not too surprised that I would mistake them for each other. Will have to look back at Code Complete. :D