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Does it matter? Even if it isn't the latest and greatest, it's still valuable for it's original reason: To teach you about the basics of constraint programming.

Does it matter? Even if it isn't the latest and greatest, it's still valuable for it's original reason: To teach you about the basics of constraint programming. And now it's valuable for a new reason: To teach you about the context and evolutionary path which led to modern constraint programing. Often, the latest and greatest is defined in terms of incremental changes from the body of generally accepted knowledge. If you just read the most recent stuff, you'll probably lack the requisite knowledge to understand it. This is true up until the point that the new stuff becomes generally accepted and widely known. At that point, somebody writes it up nice, requiring minimal context, but by that time, it's no longer the latest and greatest!

mcphage 11y ago
> Does it matter? [...] Often, the latest and greatest is defined in terms of incremental changes from the body of generally accepted knowledge. I don't know. Some fields that's true, and some fields that's not (a book on the latest and greatest of web development from 2006 would be highly out of date). Constraint Programming isn't a field I'm versed in, so I'm asking to find out whether or not it matters.
- brandonbloom 11y ago
  That's not an apt comparison. This book is about a general technique and problem domain, not a particular constraint programming language/framework/toolchain.