Giovanni Falcone Libros

An insight into the ruthless workings of the Mafia, completed only months before the death of Giovanni Falcone, a Mafia confidant whose insider's knowledge became too dangerous.

Software metrics like Lines of Code are commonly used in software engineering. Although software metrics are defined to give a concrete statement on a particular facet of a software entity, they are usually interpreted from the viewpoint of more abstract concepts like complexity. Software metrics were developed for a particular context (like an architectural model), but are often used in others than the one they were defined for. The usability of metrics in a particular context highly depends on whether they have properties like extensive structure. Extensive structure and more basic properties were originally introduced in the field of measurement theory that has been used as basis for software measurement in the past. In this thesis we address the software measurement related issues arising from considering software metrics in component based systems.

La penna è quella della giornalista francese Marcelle Padovani, ma la voce narrante è quella di Giovanni Falcone. Le venti interviste diventano materiale per dettagliate narrazioni in prima persona che si articolano in sei capitoli, disposti come altrettanti cerchi concentrici attorno al cuore del problema-mafia: lo Stato. Un'analisi che parte dalla violenza, dai messaggi e messaggeri, per arrivare agli innumerevoli intrecci tra vita siciliana e mafia, all'organizzazione in quanto tale, al profitto - sua vera ragion d'essere - e, infine, alla sua essenza: il potere. Una testimonianza resa da Falcone dopo aver lasciato Palermo nel 1991.