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From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
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Subject: Re: The "classics"
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Date: 12 Dec 88 04:31:31 GMT
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Well!  Your (excellent) list hit all but two of the books in the
stack right here on my desk.  The other two, both undisputed
classics, neither specific to Unix, C, nor graphics, and neither
of them new, but timeless, and deserving of a wider audience
because frightful numbers of people have evidently never read
them, and imagine themselves to be discovering for the first time
ideas that have been in print for decades, are:

	The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Gerald M.
	Weinberg.  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971, ISBN 0-442-29264-3.

	The Elements of Programming Style, by Brian W. Kernighan
	and P.J. Plaugher.  The second edition was published by
	McGraw-Hill in 1978 and is ISBN 0-07-034207-5; the first
	edition was published in 1974.

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs@adam.pika.mit.edu