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The Elements of Programming StyleThe Elements of Programming StylePosted Aug 7, 2008 23:56 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)Parent article: Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: The Practice of Programming
A previous incarnation of the "The Practice of Programming" is Kernighan and Plauger's "The Elements of Programming Style". This was a book that was a must read when I was in college* and covers most of the items that "The Practice of Programming" does.. However it does it in Fortran (and yes it shows how to program cleanly with style in Fortran.. and if you can do that you can do it in any language (probably even Haskell :)). * the John Shipman List of Books: Kernighan and Plauger: The Elements of Programming Style Kernighan and Pike: The Unix Programming Environment Kernighan and Ritchie: The C Programming Language Brooks: The Mythical Man-Month Knuth: The TeXbook ... I think there were 3-4 other books (but I forget them).. and there were a couple of other ones added over the years. But those were the basics you had to know if you were going to get into senior year of CS.
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+1 on TEOPS Posted Aug 9, 2008 13:52 UTC (Sat) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] I would also cite this book as that which most improved my code. Anything by Donald Knuth, also (not just the TeXbook, but any of his software engineering writings). He has a wonderful code style (if not to everyone's taste).
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