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Over the last decade, software product line engineering (SPLE) has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms for increasing productivity in IT-related industries. Detailing the various aspects of SPLE implementation in different domains, Applied Software Product Line Engineering documents best...
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Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the use of functions (in contrast to object-oriented programming, which emphasizes the use of objects). It has become popular in recent years because of its simplicity, conciseness, and clarity. This book teaches functional programming as a way of thinking and problem solving,...
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This text presents a detailed discussion of deployment options (using XML), and is followed by a quick discussion of security and authentication and then managing object lifetimes.
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This book was written entirely in Microsoft Word 2004 for Macintosh on a Mac mini and, occasionally, a PowerBook G4. Judy did her editing in Word 2000 for Windows, and we successfully passed the files back and forth many times. The production team at Peachpit Press works mostly on Macs.
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