HACKER Q&A
📣 danielovichdk

Best software books written before 2000


Seeking knowledge from before programming became pop culture mainstream.

Please share.

My list thus far.

Mythical Man Month Soul of a new Machine

Thx

  👤 mooreds Accepted Answer ✓
Computer Power and Human Reason

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...

The Pragmatic Programmer (makes the cut by being released in 1999, even though there's a second edition)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer

Refactoring by Martin Fowler (also a 1999 book with a more recent edition)

https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html

👤 mitchbob
Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation

The Unix Programming Environment

LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

Computer Lib/Dream Machines

Papert: Mindstorms

👤 mindcrime
Rapid Development - Steve McConnell - https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sch...

The Art of Computer Programming Vols 1-3 - Donald Knuth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler - https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...

👤 thecrumb
Think it was published in 2000 but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think
👤 jdougan
Death March, 2nd Ed. - Ed Yourdon

Peopleware, 2nd Ed, - Lister and DeMarco

Art of the Meta-Object Protocol

👤 pinewurst
The latter isn't a software book :)
👤 bombcar
Code Complete, 1993 edition ;)
👤 epirogov
quake 1 source code