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A comment on Ask HN: I started a publishing company. What technical books are missing?.

Re:Ask HN: I started a publishing company. What technical bo... by cocksure on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:34PM (#19048549)
There's no satisfactory book on how to read substantial code. The result is that everyone is a writer and no one is a reader. Can you imagine a situation where almost anyone can write literary novels, but very few can read them?
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Re:Ask HN: I started a publishing company. What technical bo... by dpods on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:59PM (#19048799)
I've heard this a few other times in the past actually. Are you talking about strategies for getting familiar with a new code base? Or more general like debugging or code reviews?

Do you have examples of books on this topic that you're not satisfied with?

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