I found the book underwhelming, but then I realized that programming blogs have probably ripped off every single paragraph. I preferred Kernighan and Pike's _T

I found the book underwhelming, but then I realized that programming blogs have probably ripped off every single paragraph. I preferred Kernighan and Pike's _The Practice of Programming_ to both TPP and Code Complete, though. _Programming Pearls_ (and its sequel) have also held up well to repeated reading.