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Entire books have been published that consist of annotated source code, the least famous probably being Lions' Commentary on Unix and Knuth's "TeX: The Program"

Entire books have been published that consist of annotated source code, the least famous probably being Lions' Commentary on Unix and Knuth's "TeX: The Program", since they are pretty much the only widely distributed books consisting primarily of annotated source.

Danieru 15y ago
How can they be the least famous if they are the only ones?
- cgag 15y ago
  In the same way they're the most famous.
- TeMPOraL 15y ago
  If they're the only ones, then they're the least famous and the most famous at the same time.
abecedarius 15y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282470/which-books-have-really-interesting-source-code-and-explain-it-well http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282470/which-books-have-r...
michael_dorfman 15y ago
Just glancing over at my bookshelf, how about Tanenbaum's OSDI and Knuth's MMIXware?
gjm11 15y ago
I have at least three others on my bookshelves. (Two Knuths -- METAFONT and the Stanford GraphBase -- and Fraser&Henson's "A retargetable C compiler".) For sure, there aren't a large number of books with this structure. So what?