It seems that we are not alone in our opinion that great hackers read books:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001108.html
Jeff makes a great point about there not being a lot of really great programming books out there. The bad news is that it can be hard to get at the information you need without a lot of trial-and-errorĀ and about 23 million google searches. The good news is that your reading list is actually tractable.
Please, vote with your wallet and reward great book publishers such as the Pragmatic Programmers.
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