On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:17:32AM +0200, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > Program (code) is not of great value outside computer, except examples > which usually belong to the documentation. I will not buy a book with > printed source code of Linux kernel, even if it will be very cheap :)
Ah, but would you buy a book with printed source code of the C compiler LCC? I did. It is written in a literate programming style, which means that the comments actually explain how the compiler works and how its parts fit together. A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation by Christopher Fraser and David Hanson Published by The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., 1995 ISBN 0-8053-1670-1 I would recommend this book if the compiler were free :-) I'm not claiming that the *book* is software; it's quite hard, as I found out when I dropped it on my foot. But its source code certainly is. Richard Braakman
