[programd]

> Programming Perl

That book is one of the most underrated and overlooked works on the philosophy of programming I've ever read. It's ostensibly about best practices in programming Perl (which some people consider a complex language), but in reality this is a very deep book about the best practices for programming in any language.

Note the above excerpt is pretty much universally applicable no matter what the language. Much of the book is written at that level.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-perl-4th/97...

[hinkley]

I could say a similar thing about Practical Parallel Rendering. Officially it's a book about raytracing CGI in a cluster, but the first half of the book explains queuing theory and concurrency concerns in tremendous detail. It's a thin book to begin with, and you've more than gotten your money's worth if you read the first half and give up when they start talking about trigonometry.