On Jun 14, 10:38 am, koranthala <koranth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Software Tools - Seems to be a classic - not sure whether I will buy. In that vein but more modern -- Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond (available online) Some of my old favorites: Intro to functional programming by Bird and Wadler TAOCP slightly more modernized more heady and less programmer oriented -- Concrete Mathematics by Knuth and... Science of Programming by David Gries; again more modernized to Logical Approach to Discrete Mathematics Bentley's Wriiting Efficient Programs and Programming pearls
Dijkstra's writings -- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html -- are not kind to software engineers [His defn of SE -- How to program if you cannot]. Seemingly irrelevant -- Good programmers are very good with their editors -- someone mentioned yegge. Read him for inspiration on emacs. Of course you can use something else but its important to get good at it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
