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CLRS and TAOCP don't really get old that fast.

• pmontra 10y ago
  CLRS is from 1990, too late to my party: I was through most of my CS courses by then and who could have known about it on my side of the Pond and in a different language? Some of my teachers probably, but maybe nobody as soon as I graduated and got a job. Instead I knew about TAOCP, also because of TeX. Not a required read in my CS course. We had a smaller book, Wirth's Algorithms + Data = Programs. I skimmed through the TAOCP volumes available online but it takes really a lot of dedication to read substantial part of those books and I think that the impact on my work would be minimal nowadays. But yes, by the look of them both those books will be relevant for a while.