Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Adept
From : tenser
Date : Wed Feb 21 2024 07:25 am

On 16 Feb 2024 at 02:30p, Adept pondered and said...
 
 Ad>  te>  DW> I used to read "Programming Pearls" in the back issues of the Jo
 Ad>  te>  DW> the ACM back in college and had picked up the book.  Sadly, I le
 Ad>  te>  DW> a long time ago.
 Ad>  te> 
 Ad>  te> I think you meant Communications of the ACM; JACM is mostly
 Ad>  te> theory.  :-)
 Ad> 
 Ad> I get Communications of the ACM, and it doesn't seem to have Programming
 Ad> Pearls, at this point in time.
 Ad> 
 Ad> Which means _nothing_ for this discussion, but it sounds like an
 Ad> interesting column.

It was.  Programming Pearls was a regular column published
in CACM by Jon Bentley; he collected the contents into two
books, "Programming Pearls" and "More Programming Pearls."
Both were interesting, though the former has more widely
applicable to more situations than the latter.

The first volume was given a second edition sometime in the
early 2000s; I talked to Dennis Ritchie about it briefly
before it was published; we were talking about something
else and he happened to mention that Bentley had some new
material and was discussing things like cache effects.  Some
of the content from "More" was rolled into the 2nd edition,
but the second volume has never been updated.

Both are, in my opinion, still worth a read.  The profiler
written in `awk` was pretty cool.

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