From the Middle Out

Each of these is the best book on its subject. If you need to know these languages, these will tell you all you need to know.

• Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant

• Common LISP: The Language by Guy R. Steele

• ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham

• The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

• The Waite Group's C Primer Plus by Stephen Prata

• The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup

• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel, available online at http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/

• The Scheme Programming Language by Kent Dybvig

• Linux Assembly Language Programming by Bob Neveln