wanted book recommendation for Object Oriented Programming

[Christian Tanzer]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Christian Tanzer" <tanzer at swing.co.at> wrote in message
> news:mailman.991149043.4021.python-list at python.org...
> """
> Laura Creighton <lac at cd.chalmers.se> wrote:
>     ...
> > But I have found a hole.  I need a book every bit as excellent
> > (and terse) as the rest of my list that teaches Object Oriented
>      ^^^^^^
>     ...
> I recommend Object-Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer
> (disclaimer: I read the first edition long ago and don't actually know
> the second edition. But it is the best introduction to OO I know of).
> """
> 
> Oh, it's good, but TERSE?  It's 1252 pages in the 2nd edition (which
> I own and like).  300-pages books tend to be _read_ much more
> than over-1000-pages tomes...

Ooops. Must have missed the `terse'. My only excuse is that the first
edition was a puny 500 pages :) But OOSC is still the only book I'd
recommend. 

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