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programming books that are more than a decade old are either: A) useless or B) timeless
there is no middle ground
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IDA
@IdaPant
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29. sij |
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Examples please
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Colin McMillen
@mcmillen
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29. sij |
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from my bookshelf:
useless:
* Learning Perl, 2nd ed. (Perl 5.004)
* Learning Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
* more generally, any "Learn $LANG vX" where X is > 1 revision old
timeless:
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
* Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest
* Norvig & Russell
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Spatula Octopus
@boaz_G
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28. sij |
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Counter example:
shop.oreilly.com/product/978059…
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Colin McMillen
@mcmillen
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29. sij |
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not more than a decade old, surprisingly
(and i would claim that earlier versions of this book are in fact obsolete)
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Filip Stanis
@FilipStanis
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28. sij |
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C) hilarious
(just think of all the off hand predictions like "we likely won't need this hack in the future")
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Colin McMillen
@mcmillen
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29. sij |
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my favorite one of these was my undergrad networking book (Tanenbaum) which was an edition old even at the time, and included my favorite phrase "it is not yet clear whether HTTP or Gopher will become the dominant protocol of the Internet"
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Stephen Tures
@stevetures
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28. sij |
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I usually refer to Wes Borland's book on Borland C++.
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x6j8x
@x6j8x
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29. sij |
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My top 3 picks for timeless...
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Thinking in Forth
• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
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