Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?

Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by kristianp on Monday March 12, 2018 @06:14PM (#16572177)

SICP, the foundation on which my career rests.

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by kristianp on Monday March 12, 2018 @08:20PM (#16572875)

Sorry, that was a joke. If I was honest I might say K&R's 2nd edition of "The C Programming Language".

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by facorreia on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @12:52AM (#16573930)

Definitely this one and also Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth.

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by TurboHaskal on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @08:34AM (#16575585)

SICP almost turned me into an unemployable mess.

Fortunately I managed to forget it all and am now happily earning a good living in a subset of Pascal called Go.

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @01:28PM (#16577864)

Off topic, but I'm curious: Why do you call Go a subset of Pascal? Go seems to me to be rather different, both in spirit (much less restrictive and nanny-like) and in syntax.

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Re:Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally? by csjr on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:13AM (#16584857)

Could you explain?

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