“…one book is more than most programmers read each year (DeMarco and Lister 1999)”
“I believe the same text is present in the original 1993 edition of Code Complete”
Time machine? A citation from 1999 in a 1993 edition would indeed be prescient (-:
And yet it must be so…
“I own a copy of that edition, and definitely, the text is present. It appears at the end of page 760.”