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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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| A reminder that C.S. Lewis thought clearly. Three eassays on the origins of human values. Lewis suggests there are no new values. Everything has come from the Tao, the collected values of humanity, expressed in various religions and philiosophies. Th ...more | |
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| I read the Father Brown stories when I was young. I don;t recall how many I read, only that I enjoyed them. They are clever, some are complex, all are classix whodunits and all are solved by Father Brown. He understand the criminal mind from what he ...more | |
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Most likely my most dog-eared technical book. I read it, I referred to it, I taught from it, wrote software using it, and corresponded with the authors. My copy looks like the one in the photo -- heavily used! S was a programming language for statisti ...more |
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Better than the average "reference library" software book. Becuase it was written by PJ Plauger. He's outstanding. I had and used this book when I was programming in C. The book is mostly obsolete now--it's materical can be found by search engines. Goo ...more |
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Yes, you can write beautiful code. I was a sucker for these kinds of books. But the way to write beautiful code is to write a formatter that reads your code, follows all the rules and spits out beautiful code. Nothing artistics about it. Just a bunch ...more |
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| Weird. THis isn't how you learn or use a programming language. But in the dark ages before the Internet and search engines, we used these kinds of references to answer questions about programming lanuages. Thank goodness that age ended and now we hav ...more | |
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The definitive book on C++ by the author of the language. Not nearly as good a book as the C Programming Language. I taught C++ to graduate students. It was a difficult language. The object-oriented features did not come naturally to me and the pedagog ...more |
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| Yes. I read it. And used it. Not a classic. The classic is Stroustroup's book. ...more | |
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