CPS reading list

2007-04-29 Thread Allison Randal
whorf wrote: Parrot moves beyond the fragile stack-based control flow common to virtual machines today, to a continuation-based control flow. (I can recommend a few good books and articles if you're curious.) Could you recommend the books and articles for the curious. I've had quite a few requ

Recommended Reading List Updated

2000-10-24 Thread Carlos Ramirez
Hello, I just finished updating the Perl Recommended Reading list. Have a look: http://www.perldoc.com/readinglist.pl Things to Note: 1. Added Nathan's books to the list (thanks Nat) 2. Added a link to the Perl6 Mailinglists Archive (as suggested by Ask) 3. Added a 'why??' li

Re: My reading list

2000-10-24 Thread Hildo Biersma
Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:25:44PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > :-) For those who haven't read them the Steve Maguire books are > > really really good. Hallo, no matter what you think of the software > > they shrinkwrap and sell they must (as a huge software comp

Re: My reading list

2000-10-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:25:44PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > :-) For those who haven't read them the Steve Maguire books are > really really good. Hallo, no matter what you think of the software > they shrinkwrap and sell they must (as a huge software company) have > thought quite a bit a

Re: My reading list

2000-10-23 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:11:34PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > I'd just like to stoke the latent paranoia. :-) For those who haven't read them the Steve Maguire books are really really good. Hallo, no matter what you think of the software they

Re: My reading list

2000-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:49 AM 10/24/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:11:34PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > >I'd just like to stoke the latent paranoia. Latent? What, there's some that *hasn't* come out yet? Damn, I bet it's too late to be afraid...

Re: My reading list

2000-10-23 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:11:34PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: I'd just like to stoke the latent paranoia. > Published by Microsoft Press > Published by Microsoft Press > Published by Microsoft Press > Published by Wiley > Published by Dorset House -- Putting heated bricks close to the new

My reading list

2000-10-23 Thread Nathan Torkington
(my apologies for the delay in sending this) Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell Published by Microsoft Press. Takes you step by step through the project, and each chapter ends with a checklist of things that should be happening and things that shouldn't. Quite detailed, an

Re: Reading list

2000-10-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:09:02AM -0700, Carlos Ramirez wrote: > The Perl Recommended Reading List has been updated with the latest > entries. > > Suggestions/Comments welcomed. Very nice, both in layout and in function (particularly the comparison prices). There's a danger

Re: Reading list

2000-10-12 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: > I'd like a volunteer to research and HTMLify the reading list. I > collected everyone's books (and will add my list when I get back to > the house). I just need someone to dig up ISBN nu

Re: Reading list

2000-10-12 Thread Carlos Ramirez
The Perl Recommended Reading List has been updated with the latest entries. Suggestions/Comments welcomed. -Carlos Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'll throw in Donald Knuth, _Literate Programming_ (CSLI Lecture Notes > #27), ISBN 0-937073-80-6 (paper) or 0-937073-81-4 (cloth), i

Re: Reading list

2000-10-11 Thread Uri Guttman
> "CR" == Carlos Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CR> Here's a listing of 'recommended reading' gathered from this list CR> (provided by Nat). I'm not sure if this will be a permanent place for CR> this link, but for now you can get it here. If i left out a book or if CR> you have

Re: Reading list

2000-10-11 Thread Carlos Ramirez
Here's a listing of 'recommended reading' gathered from this list (provided by Nat). I'm not sure if this will be a permanent place for this link, but for now you can get it here. If i left out a book or if you have a new suggestion you can contact me or post it here and I will add them as soon as

RE: Reading list

2000-10-11 Thread Peter Buckingham
Just a couple of additons. i can't remember whether anyone mentioned cormen et al: Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson & Rivest another bible: Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming, M. Ben-Ari also: Object-Oriented Software Cons

Re: Reading list

2000-10-11 Thread Joe McMahon
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote: > I'd like a volunteer to research and HTMLify the reading list. I > collected everyone's books (and will add my list when I get back to > the house). I just need someone to dig up ISBN numbers, Amazon links, > and HTMLify

Re: Reading list

2000-10-10 Thread Nathan Torkington
Nathan Torkington writes: > Mail me direct if you want to volunteer. Thanks, We have a winner! No more calls, please. Thanks, Nat

Reading list

2000-10-10 Thread Nathan Torkington
I'd like a volunteer to research and HTMLify the reading list. I collected everyone's books (and will add my list when I get back to the house). I just need someone to dig up ISBN numbers, Amazon links, and HTMLify it all into submission. Mail me direct if you want to volunteer. Thanks, Nat

RE: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-10 Thread Fisher Mark
If it's not too late, I'd like to also add: Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Steve C. McConnell No matter what else we do, we know we're going to be writing code for this puppy. IMHO I was writing pretty solid code already, but I'm seeing ways to impro

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-10 Thread Piers Cawley
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before I forget: (I read a *lot*) > A Course In General Linguistics, F. de Saussure. tr. Roy Harris > (If you don't know what relation this has to Perl, what are you doing > here?) > > The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike. >

Re: Perl recommended reading list

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
on't have volumes 2 or 3 handy, though they're also on the list. I'd forgotten about Rose's book--I think I have that in a box somewhere. >I personally can't resist the urge to throw all the CS classics >in there, particularly "The Structure and Interpretation of Com