> I own three volumnes of TACP and have very rarely used them. They look good and give instant programmer cred when you utter their titles, but they just haven'

> I own three volumnes of TACP and have very rarely used them. They look good and give instant programmer cred when you utter their titles, but they just haven't proven that useful to me. Much of TAoCP is simply worth reading straight-through. I don't use it as a reference all that often either, but when I do, it has never let me down.