Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ben Bacarisse Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: whats good to read on programming Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:06:05 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87a8m38i7m.fsf@bsb.me.uk> References: <81196e67-2d91-4168-9064-dd505f2b358e@googlegroups.com> <874mcbbj8v.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87lh5na2ch.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="017616aa25f81ec581c44d76d61ba2f3"; logging-data="27129"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vvLvyztNiW09kmgjexZcd1GmS0THPj6k=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:DEbEIy3qi/T/WUR9Auo74otaEDc= sha1:uM/0sw6mK75lcy9RfPh+BwlxysE= X-BSB-Auth: 1.669aeef0543253651e33.20160312220605GMT.87a8m38i7m.fsf@bsb.me.uk Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6361 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Ben Bacarisse 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! -- Ben.