Something else I should have said about Steve McConnell's "Code Complete" book... It has much more to do with the PHILOSOPHY of software construction than with specific techniques. McConnell does give a lot of examples (mostly in Pascal, but there are a bunch of C and Ada fragments, too), but if you're looking for a book full of handy little routines or whatever, this ain't it. -Andy Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499