Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?
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brlewis · Apr 29, 2008SICP, of course.
fogus · Apr 30, 2008"Godel, Escher, Bach", but I suppose that is only tangentially a computer book.
landondyer · Apr 30, 2008K&R, of course.
jfoutz · Apr 30, 2008K&R is a great too.
dmb · Apr 30, 2008I was surprised how entertaining this book was when read it a few weeks ago
renshaw · Apr 29, 2008"The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.
mechanical_fish · Apr 29, 2008"Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy.
jbum · Apr 29, 2008"Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley.
jfoutz · Apr 30, 2008The book I used the most in the 80's was Chaos by James Gleick.
jksmith · Apr 29, 2008His "Thinking Forth" also.
landondyer · Apr 30, 2008Followed closely by _Software Tools_
mironathetin · Apr 29, 2008Kernighan Ritchie: The C Programming Language.
EdwardCoffin · Apr 30, 2008I'll second "Smalltalk-80 The language and its implementation".