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.)

>>47
Note that this paragraph is strictly about copyrighted content whose main target audience are private individuals for non-commercial uses.  I'm a hungry hungry student, and while it might be acceptable for a middle class kid to pay $40 for a textbook, that's a bit more than what I spend on food every week.  We already know it is perfectly impractical to eliminate file sharing (short of severely cutting down on civil rights), and that all that DRM does is annoy paying customers.  So why not do something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI#The_.22global_license.22 instead?

>>48
I entirely agree.  If the bulk of your paying customers (i.e. the people/companies who actually have money to pay you), stay off the backs of poor private individuals.