Ask HN: Best software books written before 2000

3 points·danielovichdk··9 comments

Seeking knowledge from before programming became pop culture mainstream.

Please share.

My list thus far.

Mythical Man Month Soul of a new Machine

Thx

Computer Power and Human Reason

The Pragmatic Programmer (makes the cut by being released in 1999, even though there's a second edition)

Refactoring by Martin Fowler (also a 1999 book with a more recent edition)

Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation

The Unix Programming Environment

LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

Computer Lib/Dream Machines

Papert: Mindstorms

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler - https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...

Death March, 2nd Ed. - Ed Yourdon

Peopleware, 2nd Ed, - Lister and DeMarco

Art of the Meta-Object Protocol

The latter isn't a software book :)

If microcode can be considered as software too...

Code Complete, 1993 edition ;)

quake 1 source code