Recommendations please

[Neel Krishnaswami]

Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
> [searcher7 at my-deja.com]
> > Then can you tell me what is the best book for non-programmers that
> > you've ever seen? :-)
> >
> > Darren Harris (Searcher7 at mail.con2.com)
> 
> "Alice in Wonderland".  It's a delight!  And it has more to teach
> about programming than you'll realize until you've been programming
> for, oh, about five years <wink>.

You're in good company with this advice:

  The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in
  Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything
  for the layman.     
 
  -- Alan Perlis


Neel