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Note that the only book specific to computer language on there is McCarthy's Lisp manual.

• unimpressive 10y ago
  If you plan to get old, invest in fundamentals. They'll be with you long after any specific implementation is dead and buried.
  • signa11 10y ago
    > If you plan to get old, invest in fundamentals. by that account, shouldn't we all be learning mathematics ?
    • unusximmortalis 10y ago
      Math, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, ethics and algorithms.
      • marlag 10y ago
        Can ethics really be taught?
        • unusximmortalis 10y ago
          why not?
    • Scarblac 10y ago
      Learn ecology, we are organisms that can't live without our ecosystem and we all need to be aware of what ecosystems can and can't do. Doesn't get more fundamental than that.
      • akkartik 10y ago
        In that spirit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_of_Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_of_Nations (I pretty much wrote that Wikipedia page.)