[techtalk] Computer Books

Jeff Dike jdike at karaya.com
Tue Dec 26 01:01:05 EST 2000


kjh at flyballdogs.com said:
> Not computer geek library is complete with Donald Knuth's seminal
> series on the Art of Programming.  

Yup.  That series isn't going out of date any time soon.

> Another one of my all time
> favorites is Barb Liskov's "Abstraction and Specification in Software
> Development"

This might be if it's written in terms of CLU (a fine language, but no one 
knows it now).

> now there's a role model.

She was in charge of the main software engineering course at MIT when I was 
there.  Someone else was teaching the course when I took it though :-(

				Jeff






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