4 ms·
Ask HN: What programming language book(s) are you reading?
My question was inspired by some of the recent (or somewhat earlier) HN threads about programming languages, which I have always been interested in, as a developer (but not an implementor).
Some of those recent threads are about Rust, of which there are many these days, Lisp, Python, BASIC or Visual BASIC, and this one about Perl:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39227169
Thanks in advance to all who REPLy ;)
- Bostonian 3y agoI ordered "Modern Fortran Explained: Incorporating Fortran 2023 6th. Edition" and will read it when it arrives. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modern-fortran-explained-9780198876588?cc=de&lang=en& https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modern-fortran-expla...
- HenryBemis 3y agoI don't (anymore). But I do suggest to friends and colleagues the book "Python for Kids" when they ask me about a book to a (potentially useful) programming language so they can get their kids to do something more than watch vids on YT, with a computer.
- simonblack 3y agoQuite a blend really, just right now. UCSD PASCAL (would you believe?), pdp8 assembly**, and pdp8 OS8. Then snippets of C, Z80 assembly, and GTK+. Ask me again in a few weeks and very likely none of the above will be included. ** I like to read manufacturers' manuals as 'bedtime' reading. Yep, I'm weird!
- Blackstrat 3y agoSome 35+ years ago, I spent roughly a decade as a ‘c’ programmer. Recently, I started “Modern C” by Gustedt. Things have changed a bit.
- fuzztester 3y agoSimilar here. I programmed a lot in C some years back. I want to check out Modern C. Read somewhere that it has many improvements.
- fuzztester 3y agoSearched, found :https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c Says there that it is free to read online.