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by Pelic4n 1668 days ago
A list of this exact kind of books is presented here: https://blog.fogus.me/2015/04/27/six-works-of-computer-scien...
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Awesome! Specifically not on my list already there's: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming; Smalltalk-80: The language and its implementation; The Architecture of Symbolic Computers and Project Oberon: The design of an operating system and compiler.

This reminds me Niklaus Wirth's Compiler Construction probably belongs in this thread.

> Project Oberon: The design of an operating system and compiler - Wirth’s magnum opus is the quintessential example of Computer Science alternative-history world-building.

hilarious