Stu <stu@rubyprogrammer.net> wrote:

I'm not interested in C or UNIX and I've learned almost all of the languages
I know just from the vendor (usually IBM) reference manuals. Dry but
effective and damn well written until about a decade or so ago.

The few books I have on programming topics I wouldn't part with are Gilman &
Rose's "A Programming Language" and Griswold, Poage, and Polonsky's "The
SNOBOL4 Programming Language" (so-called Green Book, because of its cover
and now available on line). Because those languages are such departures from
"traditional" languages, whatever that means to most people, I think they're
worth looking into no matter what platform you program on. They will change
the way you think about solving problems if you don't already know APL and
SNOBOL4. I