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Erich Fromm came to mind as well. The same ideas and themes also appear in the books of Hermann Hesse.

Sicilian Defence (1. e4 c5) and how to develop it further by using different variations. It is easy to learn, it has hundreds of years of history and it is very popular in grandmas…

APL is quite common in the code golf scene.

You could follow the western canon if you wish to find classics.

For culture and fun: GolfScript

Catch Me If You Can by Spielberg (2002) Good Will Hunting by Van Sant (1997)

I think the most common thing to implement is the perceptron algorithm from scratch. I would recommend Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop. It assumes…

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is aimed at people who have experience in imperative programming languages but haven't programmed in a functional language before. http://learny…

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

Esoteric programming languages are usually created to bend the boundaries of programming language design or prove something, not to be actually used to write software. It is hacker…

Similar quote from Steve Jobs (1998) "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to m…

The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Žižek

Interactive and high-level languages are really fun to use. This reminds me of Sharp tools essay in The Mythical Man-Month (1975). "The most important two tools for system programm…

Oh yes, reader macros, now I get it. As far as I know, you cannot write your own reader macros in Clojure (unlike in Common Lisp).

What's the story behind clojure.core/read-string? I have always wondered why it executes code. There are some examples in the docs: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/read-string…

I started reading The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and I think I'll continue with Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. Not really compexity economics, but classical eco…

The Art of Electronics is on my technical reading list as well. If you are into Clojure, you will probably enjoy Elements of Clojure by Zachary Tellman. It is not a tutorial, it's …

The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson was also absorbing.

There is a list of Forth projects used in NASA missions. https://www.forth.com/resources/space-applications/

I think the only way to do this might be founding your own company and building your own product in Forth and Lisp.

Paul Graham is great and his blog is one of the most quotable and inspiring blogs I have ever read. I even bought Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age . It is a must…

I think it applies to almost any programming language and certainly also to every programming paradigm.

Darknet diaries is not as technical as HN but it has good quality content related to the industry. I especially like the stories from the visitors. https://darknetdiaries.com/

It is hard to find learning resources when trying to write NIFs for BEAM. The documentation and bindings are fine if you are using C, but when using some rarer programming language…