OT: best book in years

[Nick Vargish]

Patrick Useldinger <p.useldinger at myrealbox.com> writes:

> As I have not come across anything spectacular recently (except
> Python in a Nutshell), I would like to know what *you* consider to
> be the best book you have read in the last few years, about Python
> or IT in general.

The Python Cookbook is the best technical book I've read in a long
time. Python in a Nutshell is excellent, but lacks a certain narrative
flow which the Cookbook does posses. I think the Cookbook also has
better character development. The Cookbook really opened my eyes not
just to some of Python's abilities, but also to some programming
paradigms that I just hadn't gotten around to assimilating.

I just read Matt Ruff's new book _Set_This_House_In_Order_ and was
blown away. Brilliant, though not technical.

Nick

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