(Also are Programming socks memes welcome here?)

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      I thought the books were for your shelf tbh. You put one for each language you claim proficiency in.

      It’s cool to have niche older books though. My friend has a programming manual in Estonian from either the very late soviet era or very early 90s that has both some dialect of BASIC and some niche dialect of Pascal that I hadn’t even heard of.

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    You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!

    (Hope I’m somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore’s answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)

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    If you need to learn C, at least use the first edition of the book - the one without the ANSI additions is much smaller.

    I’'ve actually never read the second/and edition so I can’t say if it is good or not. I can tell you that the first edition still has a proud space on my bookshielf though the acid paper is starting to take a toll and I suspect it won’t be long and I’ll be needing a reprint.

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      It’s also a very good introduction to programming, and just a good read. Probably the best book about programming I’ve ever read.

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      I haven’t read either, honestly Rust is so much better than C or C++ and if I were going to learn a low level language I’d probably go with that instead. Currently I only do Python and a tiny bit of Javascript.

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        I dare assume you get downvoted for liking Rust, so take my upvote for balance. We differ about what we think of the language, but this kind of angry downvoting is plain ridiculous

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          Probably moreso for expressing the opinion so strongly without actually knowing any of the three languages.

          Edit: I’m just guessing why a different comment got downvotes. Why am I getting downvotes?

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        This Rust talk sounds exactly like Java in the 2000. It’s the language of the future!! Rust is good though but only time will tell if rust will replace C/C++ which I doubt.

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    I just wish they would just admit it already and good programmers wear compression socks. Helps with blood flow and reduces issues with sitting. It you want a nice pattern to each their own.