Some books I would like to have (back)
I've been doing quite a bit more reading since my sabbatical started. Nice to have the time. However, some key non-fiction I'd love to read or re-read has vanished. Hopefully some of these will turn up. Otherwise, I guess I have a start at a Christmas list…
- Matthias Felliasen, A Little Java, A Few Patterns
Haven't seen this cute little book in quite a while. Imagine a book ostensibly written as a Java tutorial, but taking the notions of OOP seriously in the way that only a true language geek can. A real brain-bender.
- Henry S. Warren Jr., Hacker's Delight
I think I loaned this one to someone, who I can hardly blame for not returning it. A cool and absurdly complete exploration of every kind of bit-bashing known to man.
- Graham Hutton, Programming in Haskell
I had this book for about three hours before I left it somewhere in the CS Dept. Haven't seen it since. Didn't even get a chance to put my name in it. Looked like a nice Haskell text; a little less elementary than most intro texts, which is what I was looking for.
That's all I can think of for now. I'll amend this list as I think of more that are missing, or as I find books that are on the list. I wish there was some way to get these kinds of books for $20 or less each; then I could just rebuy whatever was missing. Oh well. (B)