Learn to read the source, Luke

Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by kevinpet on Monday April 16, 2012 @06:27PM (#3849819)

Entire books have been published that consist of annotated source code, the least famous probably being Lions' Commentary on Unix and Knuth's "TeX: The Program", since they are pretty much the only widely distributed books consisting primarily of annotated source.

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Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by gjm11 on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @05:39AM (#3851890)

I have at least three others on my bookshelves. (Two Knuths -- METAFONT and the Stanford GraphBase -- and Fraser&Henson's "A retargetable C compiler".)

For sure, there aren't a large number of books with this structure. So what?

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Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by abecedarius on Monday April 16, 2012 @09:12PM (#3850452)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282470/which-books-have-r...

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Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by michael_dorfman on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:33AM (#3851606)

Just glancing over at my bookshelf, how about Tanenbaum's OSDI and Knuth's MMIXware?

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Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by Danieru on Monday April 16, 2012 @07:37PM (#3850085)

How can they be the least famous if they are the only ones?

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Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by TeMPOraL on Monday April 16, 2012 @07:54PM (#3850142)

If they're the only ones, then they're the least famous and the most famous at the same time.

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Re:Learn to read the source, Luke by cgag on Monday April 16, 2012 @07:45PM (#3850110)

In the same way they're the most famous.

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