5 Apr
2008
5 Apr
'08
6:20 p.m.
Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once
stated:
Looks like it's still worth at least a few bucks, more if it's in
decent condition. "Available free online" doesn't always whack
the market for the dead-trees artifact.
On another bookish note I have in front of me the February 16, 1970
issue of The IBM Magazine which contains an article featuring
Dr. Kenneth E. Iverson. There's a photograph of his 1962 book,
"A Programming Language", with a caption:
Dr. Iverson presented his new notation in
A Programming Language, which has sold
1,363 copies since it was published in 1962.
This suggests to me that I have perhaps personally seen 1% of the
surviving copies.
-Frank McConnell
When I was a baby geek, I remember reading about this seminal text, a
distillation from a long-active mailing list called UNIX-HATERS. Now,
it's available for free:
Darn. And to think I bought the dead tree version in the mid 90s (I still
have the barf bag that came with it).