Recommendations please

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <CC59868A0A76D311B1F50090277B321C1F34EE at VRTMAIL>,
Mike Fletcher  <mfletch at tpresence.com> wrote:
>
>I find that recommending the Lord of the Rings just doesn't work, the
>tale is so involved (and long) that the casual reader (as opposed to
>those of us who have already lost our minds) will tend to back off.
>The limited character set of the Hobbit gives the introductory reader
>a better grasp of the fundamentals of programming without requiring a
>total commitment (is that still the proper term for hospitalisation, or
>has political correctness come up with a euphemism?)

This is funny, but in all seriousness I have to agree with Tim that
_Alice_ and _Looking Glass_ *are* good books for programmers to read.
Dodgson's mathematics/logic background shines through quite clearly.
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