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From: csc@orchid.waterloo.edu (Jim Boritz)
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Subject: Book Recommendations
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 15:25:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 15:25:05 1987
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Well here it finally is, as promised.  The final listing of recommended books.
The books marked with an asterisk indicate books that we already owned.
The books marked with a plus indicate books that we have bought, or plan on
buying within the next few days.  I should also mention that while we do not
own K & R currently, we have owned many copies in the past, only to see them
disappear.  In this respect, K & R is more popular than Knuth.  One respondent
suggested K & P which is unfortunate, since there was no title associated with
the initials of the authors.  There happen to be 4 K & P books.  Three are by
Kernighan & Plauger: Software Tools, Software Tools in Pascal and The Elements
of Programming Style. The fourth is Kernighan & Pike's The Unix Programming
Environment.  I assumed Software Tools in Pascal.

To save some space I have eliminated all the titles that received only a 
single vote.

8*	Sorting	 & Searching			Knuth
8*	Seminumeric Algorithms			Knuth
8*	Fundamental Algorithms			Knuth
7+	The C Programming Language		Kernighan & Ritchie
4+	A Discipline of Programming		Dijkstra
3*	Red Dragon				Aho & Ulman 
3+	Programming Pearls			Bentley
3	Computer Networks			Tanenbaum
3+	C: A Reference Manual			Harbison & Steele
2*	Software Tools in Pascal		Kernighan & Plauger
2*	Elements of Programming Style		Kernighan & Plauger
2*	Computer Power and Human Reason		Weizenbaum
2	Writing Efficient Programs		Bentley
2+	The Sachertorte Algorithm		Shore
2	Structured Computer Organization	Tanenbaum
2	Recursive Functions and Eff. Comp.	Rogers
2	Operating Systems: Design & Imp.	Tanenbaum
2+	Goedel, Escher, Bach			Hofstader
2	Design of the UNIX Operating System	Bach
2	Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs	Wirth
2	Algorithms				Sedgewick
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1*	Computer Structure and Design		Bell & Newell

	--Jim Boritz for the Computer Science Club

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