The Architecture of Open Source Applications

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

Hey, at least it's free.

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If someone gives me SDL bindings which does not suck (I'm looking at you, LISPBUILDER )
Write it yourself. If you are crazy enough to butcher Common Lisp into your own harebrained ``DSL", you sure have enough stamina to wrap SDL anew.