On: Ask HN: What are the books you wish your colleagues had read?

[emmelaich]

All in no particular order....

As a Unix systems engineer, I would choose

    1. W.R. Stevens books on Unix and Tcp/ip.
    2. Rochkind's Advanced UNIX Programming.
    3. Most of the Unix/Linux manual pages.
    4. Bash FAQ

As a Unix systems programmer I would choose

    1. Mythical Man Month
    2. Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls.
    3. K&R C and Stroustrup C++
    4. A recent Java reference and Bloch's Java Puzzlers
    5. a reference and cookbook for the language of your choice -- Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.
    6. Google's style guides