Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje...

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz. http://www.poodr.com/

Fortran/ClearWin+ simple and to the point

http://www.silverfrost.com/manuals/clearwin.pdf

"Large Scale C++ Software Design" by John Lakos

This book made me understand that writing software is not just about creating opaque binaries with _stuff_ inside. It's also about what does this binary depends on, which symbols does it exports, how is it built, etc.

It's a real shame that Perl isn't a popular language anymore. At least there's still an active community.

Eloquent Ruby is one of my favorite books, too. That book really motivated me to learn how programming languages work. Here are a few other books I found to be enjoyable and well-written:

Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong

Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas

Seven (more) Languages In Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate

Think Bayes, Think OS, How To Think Like A Functional Programmer (Think OCaml) and The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey