Ask HN: What are your favorite programming books?
I'm sure this question as already been asked, but I couldn't find it, so here I'm asking: What are your favorite programming books?
Engineering a Compiler.
Managing Gigabytes.
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
Unix Network Programming
On Lisp
Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation
Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming
Design Concepts in Programming Languages
Lambda-Calculus and Combinators (the new Hindley/Seldin book, just got it 2 weeks ago)
Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures
Abstract Computing Machines: A Lambda-Calculus Perspective
Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (I agree with plinkplonk and am quoted on Norvig's web site saying as much; a good book about all of {AI, Lisp, programming}).
Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer (no big surprises but lots of little insights and very little I disagree with; nicely written).
Bentley, Programming Pearls (absolutely superb for the sort of low-level algorithm-heavy stuff that, er, hardly anyone does any more).
Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein, Introduction to algorithms (best single-volume algorithms text I've seen, but not for the faint-hearted; might be well supplemented with Skiena's The algorithm design manual, a very different sort of book).
To quote Darius Bacon [1]
"It's not just that Norvig is smart; he's specifically skilled at writing really good code, apparently because that's something he cared about and worked on. ..
Norvig's book _Paradigms of AI Programming_ has 900+ pages presenting code as instructive as that Sudoku solver; I've never seen a better collection. http://norvig.com/paip.html "
Now available freely online: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
The Mythical Man Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Freely available: http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby...
Programming Pearls
The C Programming Language
Effective Java