[Gllug] Recommended Books

[Rich Walker]

Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:10:18AM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
>> Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:16:42PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
>> >> Secrets and Lies is like Alice in Wonderland for crypto people.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure I understand that one. Can you explain? Who would Alice in
>> > Wonderland be relevant to [ugh, to whom...]? Children?
>> 
>> Alan Perlis, Epigrams,
>> (<http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html>)
>> number 48. 
>> 
>> >> The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
>> >> but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
>
> Hee. I haven't read it since I was a small child. Am I missing much? Is
> this just something people like to say, or is it /actually/ relevant to
> programmers?

Like the man said, get it, a copy of the Annotated Alice, and probably
some of Hofstadter's stuff. Revel.

cheers, Rich.

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