Re: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:51:06 -0700
Message-ID: <2mvcmtFrl71tU1_at_uni-berlin.de>
Jerry Coffin writes:
> OTOH, I'd say Robert Heinlein or F. Paul Wilson might have just as
> relevant of messages for software engineers as Date or Codd...
And Heinlein is listed in the end notes of Brook's book. The circle is now complete!
It occurs to me that the OP's best bet is to put <brooks mythical> as a taget to Google. This will work to find things that Brooks found useful and any one later is almost certain to reference back to Brook's. Personally, as an electrical engineer, I have difficulty with this notion of what software engineering is. My take is that the vast majority of the responses have not been what the OP wanted. But I can't figure out *what* he really wants from a single example. I have Brook's book, but have never actually read it, just scanned it. I view it as a "war stories" kind of thing. That's not meant to be critical in any way.
The subject most of the answers seem to address is: good books for programmers. Either classics, or "gonna be" classics. The OPs mention of Knuth makes clear that is not what he wanted.
ISTM that Cormen, _Introduction to Algorithms_ belongs on the list that is actually being generated.
Afterthought: <brooks mythical "war stories"> gets 280 hits on Google. Now I can either eat lunch or look at the hits. I think I'll eat lunch. Received on Fri Jul 30 2004 - 18:51:06 CEST