Authors' Note

These books were written to be used. I would rather a working engineer recognize Lava Flow at 11 p.m. than that a copy sit unsold.

I do not treat informal sharing among people who cannot pay as the enemy of the work. I do not authorize anonymous full-text hosts, scraped corpora, or commercial resellers. Those copies are not official, they are often damaged, and they do not feed the revision.

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— Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III
Coauthor, AntiPatterns (Wiley 1998, 1999, 2000)
skip@antipatterns.com