Comment by shagie

> If you lack the innate curiosity to explore those things others have declared marvelous, then this book will offer you no value.

> Every time I crack this book open I get excited and I've read it multiple time and one most of the exercises. I can think of few other books that really expose the beauty and simultaneously strong engineering foundations of software.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825 and others)

> Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

I recommend (not ironically) Double Binded Sax by the group named Software.