/prog/ - A book I consider important

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 1:29

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.)

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 0:16

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It's year 4e5 BC. A tribe of Homo Erectus has just discovered how to make and master fire. In order to maintain an advantage, they keep fire-making a secret and sell lit torches to other tribes. A neighbouring tribe purchases a lit torch from the fire masters' tribe, then makes it into a big fire and gives it away to other tribes for free; is that stealing?

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