Good books in computer science?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.1928.1245616909.8015.python-list at python.org>, Phil 
Runciman wrote:

> What I can say is that for scientific/engineering calculations the RPN of
> KDF9 was Great because assembler was no harder than using algol60 for the
> calculations part of the problems I worked on.

Unfortunately, we had to learn the hard way that machine instruction sets 
must be designed for efficiency of execution, not ease of use by humans. 
Stack-based architectures, for all their charm, cannot match register-based 
ones in this regard.