----------------------------- On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 1:17 PM CEST Alan Gauld wrote:
>On 02/04/15 12:09, Dave Angel wrote: > >> Ah, Jon Bentley (notice the extra 'e'). I should dig out my *Pearls >> books, and have a trip down memory lane. I bet 95% of those are still >> useful, even if they refer to much earlier versions of language(s). > >Yes, the Pearls books should be required reading for all new programmers. The >lessons are pretty timeless, it's only the >languages that change - and most of his examples seem to be >in a kind of pseudo Pascal dialect rather than real code anyway. > >I believe they've been re-released as a single volume now. Is this the book you are referring to? http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Edition-Bentley/dp/0201657880 Thanks! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
