Culling the hard...copy
2003-10-13 21:15:57.922831+00 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
So, speaking of books, I've decided that I need to do a big culling of my bookshelves. I'm not sure quite how far down I want to dig, but some questions:
- Should I keep my copy of Newman & Sproull
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? How about the other
classics that I don't have a reason to go back to, Aho, Sethi &
Ullman's Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, Clocksin
and Mellish on Prolog, Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools,
the classics that probably most modern geeks haven't heard of? Some
of these might be useful for archivists some day, looking at the
Human Interface Guidelines for the Apple Desktop Interface could
show some interesting things about how GUIs evolve, but should
I care? - How about books for obsolete APIs and hardware. Any reason to
care about COM any more? How about Norton's Programmer's Guide
to the IBM PC?
- And process books? From Jane M. Healy's Failure to Connect to
Steve McConnell's Writing Solid Code to The Inmates Are Running
The Asylum, many of these were lauded, some I liked, some I didn't,
will I ever have a reason to go back?
And, perhaps the most important question: On the ones I don't see a need to keep, should I throw 'em out, or does someone out there want 'em?