[Shacs] (end of) summer reading list

[Bronius Motekaitis]

I sense a little bias with the more up-to-date titles.. I read an interview
in a recent InformationWeek with a mathematician who made reference to "the
classics," and I remembered that Dr Burris would go on and on about a couple
title in particular.

Well, his name appearing in a thread twice (now thrice) hasn't caught his
attn, but maybe this will: I met a guy here in town that used to work for
Boeing doing contract work for NASA, and he worked in (did he say python? I
don't recall) and Ada.  A young guy!  What is this world coming to??

-bronius



On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Sean Duckett <sduckett at shsu.edu> wrote:

> * Bronius Motekaitis <bronius.motekaitis at gmail.com> [2008-08-13 09:37:35
> -0500]:
>
> > Dr Burris-
> > What would you say are "the classics" in computer science lit?
> >
> > -bronius
>
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> I'm not Dr Burris (even though I play him on TV), but here's my
> presently devaluted $0.02:
>
>
>  * The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
>  * The Zen of Programming
>  * Code Complete
>  * Working Effectively with Legacy Code
>  * The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System (and
>   The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System)
>  * Things Computer Scientists Rarely Think About (Knuth talks
>   calligraphy and religion)
>
>
> --smd.
> "... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
> picturesque liar."
>
>
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