At 04:00 PM 10/9/00 +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>On 5 Oct 2000, at 15:06, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > I should actually RFC it--we could use a "recommended reading" RFC.
>
>Have you had any further thoughts on this? Do you think you'll find
>the tuits necessary?
Well, here's a quick list, sans ISBN numbers, of the books I'm digging (or
have recently dug) through that are relevant to perl 6:
The Mythical Man-Month
Fred Brooks
Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu (translation by Ursula LeGuin)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
Programming with POSIX Threads
Dave Butenhof
Compilers
Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman
Advanced Compiler Design & Implementation
Steven S. Muchnick
Building an Optimizing Compiler
Robert Morgan
Garbage Collection
Richard Jones and Rafael Lins
Of the ones here, I'd say the first four are probably the most important.
(And yes, I *am* serious. Especially about Understanding Comics--chapter
seven is arguably the most important single chapter in the lot, though one
could certainly argue for some of the chapters in the Tao Te Ching. If I
could get cheap reprints of it, I'd likely hand the thing out to anyone
who's interested in writing code for the core)
MMM and the Tao Te Ching are probably less relevant folks not managing a
project, but arguably still relevant.
I've also got
Algorithms (A functional programming approach)
Fethi Rabhi and Guy Lapalme
The Limits of Software
Robert N. Britcher
in the queue to look at, and
Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, and Ronald L. Rivest
Internetworking with TCP/IP vol 1 4th edition
Douglas E. Comper
TCP/IP Illustrated vol 2
Gary R Wright and W. Richard Stevens
on the reference shelf. (Well, OK, K&R 2nd edition is there too, but that
almost doesn't count)
It's a rather lopsided list (and the urge to add some HP Lovecraft is
almost too strong to resist... :) but there you go.
Reasonably soon I'm going to throw them together, along with a paragraph or
six on each for why they're relevant, into an RFC (probably internals RFC
#1), and other folks can tack onto it when they get a chance.
Dan
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