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		edwinnathaniel on March 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend As to my understanding, Programming Pearls focused lies between the range of elegant code and algorithms/problem solving as opposed to secured coding practice in the C programming language.

lwat on March 26, 2012 [–]

Still, someone like Knuth will argue that correctness should not be sacrificed for elegance.

edwinnathaniel on March 26, 2012 | [–]

Feel free to crucify John Bentley.

I know I'll learn more out of the book if I don't care of the small nitpicks like "gets()".

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