At first I didn't think I had any, so I did a quick scan of my bookshelves:
_Anatomy of LISP_.
I also did SiCP cover to cover in a few months when it first came out.
_SmallTalk 80: Bits of History, Words of Advice_. Fantastic stuff; reading about making those early 80s processors run ST efficiently is like watching early rocketry.
_The Unix Programming Environment_. This should date me.
_Threaded Interpretive Languages_ (during the FORTH craze of the early 80s). Cured me of FORTH.
Tannenbaum's book on MINIX (bought it the day it came out, had it signed by Tannenbaum at Computer Literacy in San Jose. What a crowd. I miss that store).
That's about it. Of course there are many other computer-related books that I couldn't put down, such as _A Few Good Men from Univac_ and _The Soul of a New Machine_. But these are not about programming.
AoL is better written -- I found both his prose and his code style more inviting -- but much more dated than LiSP. That I liked it better has more to do with not already knowing most of it, the way I did with LiSP. If you can pick it up cheaply, do, at least for history and entertainment.
A (possibly mutual) acquaintance just sent a copy my way. :D I'm off to bed, but will dig into it tomorrow. I really enjoyed LiSP, and really look forward to it!
_Anatomy of LISP_.
I also did SiCP cover to cover in a few months when it first came out.
_SmallTalk 80: Bits of History, Words of Advice_. Fantastic stuff; reading about making those early 80s processors run ST efficiently is like watching early rocketry.
_The Unix Programming Environment_. This should date me.
_Threaded Interpretive Languages_ (during the FORTH craze of the early 80s). Cured me of FORTH.
Tannenbaum's book on MINIX (bought it the day it came out, had it signed by Tannenbaum at Computer Literacy in San Jose. What a crowd. I miss that store).
That's about it. Of course there are many other computer-related books that I couldn't put down, such as _A Few Good Men from Univac_ and _The Soul of a New Machine_. But these are not about programming.