Ask HN: Best software books written before 2000
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...
The Pragmatic Programmer (makes the cut by being released in 1999, even though there's a second edition)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer
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
Rapid Development - Steve McConnell - https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sch...
The Art of Computer Programming Vols 1-3 - Donald Knuth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler - https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...
Think it was published in 2000 but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think
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 :)
Code Complete, 1993 edition ;)
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