This book was a disappointment. The coverage was shallow, a mile wide and an inch deep, and mainly repeated information available elsewhere, in better books. It wandered off into coverage of topics not directly related to its subject - profilers and memory analysis tools are certainly useful in API/library implementation, but have little to do with design, for example. Reddy's prose is pedestrian (not that one necessarily demands scintillating prose in a technical book).

For the experienced programmer, this is a waste of time and money; it will largely tell you what you know already; better reread Lakos or Coplien. For the neophyte or the journeyman, it does have the virtue of gathering a lot of basic information into one place. ( )