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If we're assuming an America-centric question and your abstract definition then you can summarize it with just one book: 1. The Bible. Closely followed by wha
by radicalbyte 15y ago
If we're assuming an America-centric question and your abstract definition then you can summarize it with just one book:
1. The Bible.
Closely followed by whatever the first book that people in stackoverflow's demographic read whilst learning to read.
- jacques_chester 15y agoWhy is this being downvoted? I'm an atheist, but even I can see the bible's profound impact on the course of western and near-eastern civilisation.
- feral 15y agoCertainly, it is very influential - but is it a book that all programmers (even western ones) should read? I'm not sure - it is very long. Its probably worth reading some subset of, but I'd be more certain about 1984 and even The Prince, depending on whether we mean 'read all the way through'.