On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:39 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> John Joyce wrote:
>> K&R is not a sacred religious text and C is not a religion. But,  
>> that's an unfortunately common attitude among C forums though...
>
> I'd say K&R is pretty close to a sacred religious text. Certainly  
> K&R is a lot closer to a sacred text than a lot of other  
> programming language books out there. The only others I can recall  
> that even come close are the Lisp 1.5 manual, "Structure and  
> Interpretation of Computer Programs", and the Clocksin - Mellish  
> Prolog book.
>
Ah, come on, man, what about Larry Wall's camel?!
That's like the Hunter S. Thompson of programming books! Eternal  
classic.