From: Robert Klemme Date: 2011-06-10T22:39:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Classic Computer Science Books On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Stu wrote: > > > What books have you read that you still admire and refer to even after > > all these years? The kind of books that you would love to be > > altruistic and loan to your colleague or friend but fear it wont ever > > get returned? > > I don't fear not getting books back but apart from that: > > Object Oriented Software Construction > Bertrand Meyer > http://docs.eiffel.com/book/method/object-oriented-software-construction-2nd-edition At this place in the priority list I forgot: The Mythical Man-Month Fred Brooks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month Peopleware Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams > Denkfallen und Programmierfehler (in German) > Timm Grams > http://www.amazon.com/dp/3540520392 > > and maybe also > > Mastering Regular Expressions > Jeffrey E.F. Friedl > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126/ Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/