A book I consider important

http://dump.udderweb.com/CODE.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319

The author, Petzold, has been mentioned on /prog/ before, but AFAIK only in the context of his MS Windows books.

This one is different, because it helped me understand the nature of information, how it is part of reality and was so even before people existed.  In that way, it helped me understand what functional programming is.  (I'm sure that there is more than one path to that place, but this is the one I took.)

>>7
Call them licenses or contracts. That's what they are.

>>et al.
http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/
questioncopyright.org

Don't love being in control?

>>brainwashed
Thanks for "stealing" todays forecast, the street names, even the TCP/IP  communication on protected board called shii-chan. Imbeciles. Donations/Contributions are always welcomed.