Five Memorable Books About Programming
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Five Memorable Books About Programming was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 7, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 66 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #12 of 30, reached on Nov 8, 04:24 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 10:54 UTC.
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For me, the blue Smalltalk book by Adele Goldberg was deeply formative. It was computing done right and from first principles. The other two formative experiences for me were using Cincom’s Mantis on the 3278 and Dataflex 2. Both made it obvious how quickly one could go from screen to persisted data, CRUD,…
How about Higher-Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus? https://hop.perl.plover.com/ Some other great low flying titles: The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561273/the-computational-bea... The Nature of Computation by Cristopher Moore and Stephan Mertens.…
Programmers at work: I bought a used copy of it - probably after reading this the first time it was posted. Great book, if you can find it. Code, by Charles Petzold should be on any programmer’s list - and the list of anyone with curiosity about how the modern world works. It somehow manages the amazing trick of…
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#12 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 8, 04:24 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
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It was first seen on Nov 7, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (66 checks) since.
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105 points and 65 comments; submitted by andsoitis on Nov 7, 2026.