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Abstraction and Specification in Program Development

Barbara Liskov and John Guttag

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Thinking Forth; Software Tools; SICP; Abstraction and Specification in Program Development; Essentials of Programming Languages; Paradigms of AI Programming; I'd like to list something about OO too, but no book I know really measures up to learning from other programmers. But there's Mark S. Miller's thesis Robust Composition. (in roughly chronological order. As you can see from the chronology, it took me a long time to start to like OOP.)