In article .com,
says...
texts): Jon Bentley's two Programming Pearls books and Kernighan and
Plaugher's The Elements of Programming Style.


Don't know about Bentley's books but Elements of Programming Style
should be a mandated prerequisite for anyone aspiring to write any kind
of code. A bit dated maybe but still a must read.

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