Re: whats good to read on programming

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>A more interesting question would be what is your favourite book ever
>>about the subject of programming either in general or some specific
>>aspect thereof?
>
>   I have observed that even a bad or mediocre book still might
>   give you some good inspiration, and a book everyone praises
>   might be boring to you.
>
>   Ok, one book I enjoyed reading at that time was the now
>   arcane »LISP - Anwendungsgebiete, Grundbegriffe,
>   Geschichte« by Herbert Stoyan, published in 1980. It treated
>   the fundamentals and the history of LISP.

Interesting that LISP comes up again.  I was going to give a LISP book
too, but I considered it rather arcane (even at the time) and since it
is out of print I thought it not worth while mentioning, but, for the
record it's "Anatomy of LISP" by John Allen, McGraw Hill, 1978.  It gave
me an entirely new perspective on what programing was really about,
though that might have been more to do with how little I knew when when
I read it!

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 08:58 -0800
  Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-12 19:15 +0000
    Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 11:36 -0800
      Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-12 19:59 +0000
        Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 12:07 -0800
          Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 12:19 -0800
            Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-12 20:26 +0000
              Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 12:32 -0800
          Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-12 20:23 +0000
    Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-12 20:05 +0000
      Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 12:13 -0800
      Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 12:29 -0800
      Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-12 22:06 +0000
        Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 15:56 -0800
    Re: whats good to read on programming Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-03-13 02:08 +0000
      Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 00:10 -0800
        Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 00:19 -0800
    Re: whats good to read on programming "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-03-13 11:24 -0600
      Re: whats good to read on programming Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-13 23:51 +0000
  Re: whats good to read on programming Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-03-12 19:45 +0000
    Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 11:57 -0800
    Re: whats good to read on programming fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 11:59 -0800
    Re: whats good to read on programming Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-12 14:35 -0600
  Re: whats good to read on programming Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-03-12 14:35 -0600
  Re: whats good to read on programming Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> - 2016-03-13 15:47 +0100

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