>I get the impression that most people who recommend the Dragon book haven't read it. These days you can usually tell that they haven't read it if they refer t

>I get the impression that most people who recommend the Dragon book haven't read it. These days you can usually tell that they haven't read it if they refer to it as "the Dragon book" and don't say anything about the edition. The same thing goes for "Knuth", "the Appel book", etc.