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Finally picked up Strunk and White after years of procrastination and so far it has been a tour-de-force consolidating/spelling out the knowledge I picked up al
by ziyao_w 6y ago
Finally picked up Strunk and White after years of procrastination and so far it has been a tour-de-force consolidating/spelling out the knowledge I picked up along the way (ESL). I found mentally swapping out words about writing for words about programming to be fun.
- madhadron 6y agoIf you liked that, I heartily recommend "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" by Williams.
- Alex63 6y agoNot as thin, but you might find Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style interesting as a follow-up to S&W.
- undecidabot 6y agoBrian Kernighan (the K in K&R and AWK) also wrote a similar book with P. J. Plauger called "The Elements of Programming Style" [1]. There's even a talk by him about it online (2009) [2]. Kernighan also co-authored a (imo) really great book with Rob Pike (once an assistant of Penn & Teller [3]) called "The Practice of Programming" [4]. Unfortunately, this one is a bit over the 200 page limit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_St... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUkrR7ZfTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUkrR7ZfTA [3] https://youtu.be/z4iVAcYyWN0?t=180 https://youtu.be/z4iVAcYyWN0?t=180 [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming
- billfruit 6y agoKingsley Amis 'A guide to modern usage', a similar choice for non-Americans.