On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Stu <stu / rubyprogrammer.net> wrote: > What books have you read that you still admire and refer to even after > all these years? The kind of books that you would love to be > altruistic and loan to your colleague or friend but fear it wont ever > get returned? I don't fear not getting books back but apart from that: Object Oriented Software Construction Bertrand Meyer http://docs.eiffel.com/book/method/object-oriented-software-construction-2nd-edition Denkfallen und Programmierfehler (in German) Timm Grams http://www.amazon.com/dp/3540520392 and maybe also Mastering Regular Expressions Jeffrey E.F. Friedl http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126/ Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/