On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k...@shike2.com> wrote:
> - K&R > - The practice of programming > - The dragon book > - The standard C library. P.J. Plauger > - Lions book > - The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach > - The art of unix programming > - Let's build a compiler (this is a articles serie, but > there is a compiler version) > - Linkers and Loaders , published by Morgan-Kaufman > - Termcap & terminfo Some books remid me of suckless philosophy > Ingenious ideas are simple. Ingenious software is simple. Simplicity is the > heart of the Unix philosophy. > The more code lines you have removed, the more progress you have made. As the > number of lines of > code in your software shrinks, the more skilled you have become and the less > your software sucks. I think this also applies to books. Less pages usually means better quality. For example: - "The little schemer" (recommended by pmarin <pacog...@gmail.com> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:48 PM) is ingenious. - K&R is nice. (A bit outdated though.) - Dragon book is thick and complex (also outdated).
