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.)

>>82
I didn't say they shouldn't be compensated for their magnificent intellectual work, I just said file sharing isn't stealing.  Criminalizing information sharing isn't the only way to ensure compensation, you know.  Read up about the ,,global licence'' system that was proposed in France.

>>79
Mr. ESL
Actually, it's my third language, so that's quite complimentary.  Thank you!