Re: Software book recommendations...

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:39:27AM -0400, Chris Patti wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Ged Byrne <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > You might find this link over on stack overflow useful:
> >
> >
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72406/what-development-book-made-the-most-impact-on-you-as-a-developer-closed
> >
> > For me, the most impact came from the following books:
> >   * The Pragmatic Programmer - Helps you see all programming as something
> > more than just writing code.
> >   * Code Complete - Common sense encapsulated.
> >   * Object Oriented Software Construction - Introduces Design by Contract
> >   * Thinking Forth - About thinking, not programming.
> >  This desperately needs updating.
> >
> 
> The FORTH community seems to have stagnated somewhat over the last few
> years, or so it seems to me, as an outsider looking in.

It has always seemed pretty stagnant to me.

> I have always enjoyed playing with FORTH, but have yet to write a program of
> any real complexity in it.

Same here.

Additional books from my list -
_The Little Schemer_ (and follow ups)
_The Practice Of Programming_
 
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