There are always great suggestions here at Perlmonks on what Perl references to use. I sometimes see pointers to other materials as well, often ones I'd already be quick to point out.

I like to point people to Knuth's books, W. Richard Stevens's books, The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike, The Mythical Man Month by Brooks, the Aho, Sethi, and Ullman's "Dragon Book", Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions, Reiman and Cooper's About Face, Schneier's texts about cryptography, Steele's Common Lisp, The Language, and Michael Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics depending upon what they are wanting to know and in what depth. I've found that the compiler books are good for more than just writing compilers, and the Lisp book is informative for those using other languages.

What I was wondering is what references, in book form or otherwise, do other monks depend upon or recommend to others which don't necessarily have anything to do with Perl but which could be helpful to people using Perl or to programmers in general?

Update: added ISBN links to specific books mentioned.

Christopher E. Stith
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In reply to Useful non-Perl-specific references by mr_mischief

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