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So, anyone else here who like to read old "obsolete" books on programming?

Like what?

>>12006 SICP

I've read K&R, which some people say has now been obsoleted. Apart from that, reading obsolete programming books is a luxury I can't afford, as I haven't even read a quarter of the contemporary programming books I want to read.

>>12009 SICP is not obsolete at all.

>>12006 Like a book on MySQL 4. From 2003, I think. >>12010 But if you get "obsolete" books on the cheap, won't that be good?

>>12012 Was thinking more about a luxury in the sense that I don't have enough time to read them, rather than me not being able to afford them. You could probably get older books for very little money.

>>12013 I see.

Javascript by Example and C for programmerd are not that obsolete, but in some was humorously outdated

I read The Calculi of Lambda Conversion when I'm having trouble sleeping.

>>12019 I can't find it in the usual places... There's an ebook of it somewhere, I'm sure.

I have this book somewhere. Just fuarrrking look at that cover.

I like reading old papers and stuff. It's funny to see how weird/bad some of the code can be.

pic related it's an interesting read at times I also enjoy reading pieces of Ludwig's Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses, though it's DOS & 16-bit x86 related

>>12020 I doubt PUP would bother with an ebook version. Just read any other text on lambda calc and it will cover everything that's in this and much more. >>12024 nice

>>12011 SICP isn't relevant more since we have OOAD now.

>>12029 That's a strange way to spell HTDP.

>>12040 You can't replace SICP because then you can't get those sick meme points if can't say "I finished SICP" and post anime girls with SICP shoops.

>>12011 Pic related

My university library is full of outdated books. Early 2000s books on C#, JavaScript, Cold Fusion, etc. Why not just recycle them?

>>12040 Why not just do both? That's what I am doing.

>>12025 If only I had a copy, I might be inspired by >>>/lit/2416 to build a book scanner and scan it myself.

My Uni's library has a collection of Journal of Computer Automata, each a selection of important cs papers since the late 40's. It's both interesting and disheartening seeing the incredible amount of optimism old timers had for computers their applications. Plus all the adorable ads for card punches and drum memory... I can try to snag a couple scans, if anyone wants... Maybe throwing up misc table of contents, then taking requests.

>>12076 I'd love to see those ads on punch card and magnetic cores

>>12067 There is no such thing as paper recycle. At least worst you get only bad paper. I'd love to get my hands on old books and magazines with BASIC listings and convert the programs to C as an exercise! :P

>>12029 W-What is OOAD, lainon-kun?

>>12266 "Object-oriented analysis and design" I don't think that they were referencing a certain book