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.)

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Why can't people just admit it's stealing? Just because stealing is something undignified, you can't redefine what stealing is and is not just because you're also doing it. That's makes you even more of a scum than a petty food thief. At least he knows and admits it's stealing.