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by p0llard 2137 days ago
In general they seem to do a good job of missing out books which cover the mathematical basis of theoretical computer science; if the aim is to provide a starting point for humanity to recover technical knowledge following some disaster, I'd argue that a survey of the past 100 years' research into theoretical computer science is orders of magnitude more useful (who wants to repeat (i.e. waste) another 100 years on the Entscheidungsproblem?) than n different books on specific programming language.