This will be an unusual answer: the Inform documentation. It is some of the best, most compelling technical prose I've ever read. The stability of it is very ca

This will be an unusual answer: the Inform documentation. It is some of the best, most compelling technical prose I've ever read. The stability of it is very calming when everything else in programming is in a perpetual state of simultaneous development and deprecation. The two books are "Writing with Inform" and "The Inform Recipe Book": https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_1_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_1_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/RB_1_1.html https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/RB_1_1.html Inform is a weird beast: it is a domain-specific language for writing interactive fiction stories, with natural English language syntax. But underneath there's an object model and datatypes and you can use it as a general-purpose language: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/inform7/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/inform7/ Additionally, there's "The Inform Designer's Manual", which is for an earlier version using a more standard programming language syntax: https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/index.html https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/index.html