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Amazing lists of books. If you were to choose one, which one would be your favorite book? Why?

"TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 2", Gary R. Wright, W. Richard Stevens, 1995.

This book introduced me to the fascinating world of BSD.

Edit.
Sorry, I can't choose just one book, I'll choose one more (it still helps me in my work) :
"UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1", W. Richard Stevens, 1998 :cool:
 
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That would be quite a demotion,
Of MS? Yes.
third one from the left, very very important book!
It is. So are the the both first ones.
I cook since my early student days back at U, and I may say, I'm not quite a bad cook.
I got me this book last year, and I was impressed how very good it is: Not only excellent on basic cooking lessons, but I dare say the whole german cuisine in very simple, fool proof, and tasty recipes - very, very recommendable!

One has to eat.
You are what you eat.
If you stuff yourself with crap... well,
better take the hour a day to cook yourself.
It's cheaper, healthier, and tastes better.
But I don't need to tell that a father of two small boys.
You already knew that, of course - but this is an open forum.
 
I still have my ASM, Turbo Pascal and C in paper copies
 

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Mine are dotted around various bookshelves:
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This batch is to scratch my retro itch back when Windows was the product (rather than its users).
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My favorite batch is this one. Hardback K&R and UNIX Programming Environment along with the best Motif book (Brain).
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I hate you so much, guys :p Except for mechanical/electrical engineering books, I have only four books about programming topics. I'll be in shame to post pictures.:(

Okay, maybe I exaggerated a bit, and by sheer coincidence, my lovely wife ordered some books for my birthday and I received them.
Look this wonderful Z600 shelf :

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A useful and fun little guide for markdown and my first computer, at the opposite of the power Z600: Amstrad PC5086, RAM 640 ko, CPU 8086 @4.77 MHz, 3"1/2 floppy 720 ko, HDD 40 Mo access time 28 ms, graphics VGA. It was running under MS-DOS 3.30 + Doshell + pc/geos

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My nerdiest collection... not programming-related, but follows the same geek theme:

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My favorite item is the denim-wrapped 3-ring binder on the right. Took notes in that thing starting in my senior year in high school.
 
Some digging revealed this here: (1972 print, pretty vintage pr0n)
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My dad had some manuals for Fortran H, no idea where those went...
 
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