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Are you sure this list is "Basic"? for example "Gedanken Experiments Concerning Flows at High Reynolds Number"? This list seems more like a set of specialized
by platz 10y ago
Are you sure this list is "Basic"?
for example "Gedanken Experiments Concerning Flows at High Reynolds Number"?
This list seems more like a set of specialized studies for an 'elective' topic course.
- nograpes 10y agoThey aren't real books. This is a joke.
- fao_ 10y agoThe one by EWD appears to be real https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340... Edit: Ok, I admit it's not a book...
- abecedarius 10y agoThe joke in this case is that it's the only one of these titles that's real. (Probably the only.)
- codemac 10y agoAnd it's humorous to include because of the irony of the title.
- abecedarius 10y agoI'll explain that one. In the 1970s Burge wrote a book "Recursive Programming Techniques" explaining cool things you can do with functional programming -- yes, a lot of that stuff goes back that far. Reynolds invented a functional language called Gedanken -- the paper was iirc 1972. (I don't remember if Burge used Gedanken in his book, or if it was just similar notation, both inspired by Landin. I think it was the latter and you couldn't actually run any of the code in the book.) The pun is about fluid mechanics and 'control flow'.