Some of the people responding to this thread might consider that they are proving "Bill the Lizard" correct :). I laughed when I read the article because I hav

Some of the people responding to this thread might consider that they are proving "Bill the Lizard" correct :). I laughed when I read the article because I have checked out every one of the books he says programmers claim to have read (TAOCP, etc) from my company's internal library, and though I skimmed interesting parts (Go4, especially), I hardly read them.