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A New Bible For Programmers?

Posted by timothy on from the squinty-little-eyes dept.

KZigurs writes "The wonders of online publishing... If you are ready to take on a heroic task and read thru all 976 pages of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (draft) (pdf file, 3MB, intro here) written by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi you won't regret it. Just finished reading it and I feel like I have read the Bible. And who knows? It has the potential, and since current de facto books about programming are aging with increasing speed it very well may become one. (Please read the intro to get more detailed outlook at topics covered)
Anyone before heard about Oz?"

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  1. Newer Copy Available by erasmus_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure why the article links to the April 26th draft version of the book, when the intro page itself has the link to the much newer June 5th version.

    http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/booksingle.pd f

    I look forward to reading it from the intro, however, might be really worthwhile.

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  2. Mirror Here by Bluetrust25 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's mirrored here courtesy of SurveyComplete.

    Incedentally, I highly recommend the book Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve C McConnell. It tought me more about programming than the rest of my computer book bookshelf!

    Another great resource is Safari. It's a web service that for a fee, allows you to view O'reilly, Que, and Sams books online. I find the code search feature to be invaluable. Cheap way to read technical books.