Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by WillAdams 528 days ago
Unfortunately, the book this was included in: _Computing: A Human Activity_

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4594604-computing

is out of print, as is _Concise survey of computer methods_ and rather pricey.

Oddly, _Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules_ (which has an even lengthier title after a colon...) has four entries at Goodreads and is listed under "P. Naur" and is even pricier, quite expensive on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Mystique-Logic-Rules-Statemen...

even as an ebook.

It would be more influential if it was affordably in print....

2 comments

It was reprinted elsewhere, in an agile book (which one?) which this (more readable than linked) copy [1] is from. I think the other one might be from another edition of the same book. I ordered Computing A Human Activity a few weeks ago, its still in shipping, probably got the cheapest remaining copy.

[1] https://pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985programming.pdf

Paging Stripe Press