* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Practice of Programming - Kernighan and Pike
Now I regard Code Complete as a better book, but ho hum. > Commentary on the Unix 6th edition, with source code - John Lions. My only complaint is that it doesnt fit on my bookshelves (its printed, well at least by copy is) in landscape. > An Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Rivest and Leiserson I didn't think this would appeal to the masses, and to those who haven't read it, it is far more than a simple introduction, CLR (i seem to remember that being the abbrev in Uni, not CRL, but i may be wrong) is probably the best single book you can buy on Algorithms. > Programming Perl (3rd Ed) - Wall, Christiansen and Orwant. Well as your mentioning Perl books, I'd recommended Effective Perl Programming, which not a lot of people (present company excluded) have probably heard of. > Is this good, I've heard about it from others before, it may well have to > migrate to my "to get" list. Very! Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/
