Handbook of Geometric Programming Using Open Geometry GL

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Summary: Don't waste your money - a very bad book
Review: Don't waste your money. This is some of the most unorganized, poorly commented code I've ever seen. Some of the code is in German! The book is in English so silly me, I expected the code to be use English words for variable and function names. An example of their lack of attention to detail is the first example in the book (circumcircle) is not even in try.cpp. Yes, I fixed the example myself, but this is an example of the author's sloppiness. How about file names like a.cpp, b.cpp, c.cpp, etc! This was an ... waste of time for me.

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Summary: no source == closed !open
Review: the book and associated library look interesting.
i have not read it, only flipped through it.
i almost bought it but decided to do a bit of research
before hand. i'm glad i did, because the open geometry
library is in fact a closed source library
(as i understand it you must buy the book to get the source).
the word open is apparently derived from opengl.
the problem is that the word open in opengl is the 'open' of 'open standards' and 'open source'.
this is at best an ignorance of the current trends
in the software development world, and at worst, plain misleading.
when the authors either change the library's
license or the library's name to more directly reflect the true
nature of its license, i'll be glad to buy the book and review it again.
i think that they would find that by open sourcing their business model
they would stand to make a lot more money, as they are not really
in the business of selling software, but selling books. who wants to buy
buy a book about an obscure closed source library that could disappear tomorrow?