Larry is a perl God EWD is a^Wthe computer science God - a much bigger realm :-)

I obtained a copy of 'A Discipline of Programing' some years ago - was out of print so I payed well over the odds for it. I have to say that unlike almost every other CS book I have read I keep going back to it again and again for inspiration and ideas.

It marries the discipline of programming with the art. It makes programming into a science and shows the full beauty of the soliving a problem. It covered non-deterministic systems proving at a time when ND systems were considered an art form and not a science.

A book written by someone decades ahead of his time - a programming god if not (IMHO) the programming^WCS god.

Jacqui

p.s. Everyone should have a copy of this book.
Mine was loaned to a member of staff who took it when he left so I will be ordering two more copies RSN. One for me and one for work to waft under junior staffs noses.

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