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- Tom Phoenix
| 4 | 8 reads | |
| #3 | Programming Ruby - Dave Thomas
- Chad Fowler
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| 4.5 | 11 reads | |
| #4 | Mastering Regular Expressions | 4.22 | 11 reads | |
| #5 | The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan
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| 4.36 | 52 reads | |
| #6 | Beautiful Code - Jon L. Bentley
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- Charles Petzold
- Douglas Crockford
- Henry S. Warren Jr.
- Ashish Gulhati
- Lincoln Stein
- Jim Kent
- Jack Dongarra
- Poitr Luszczek
- Adam Kolawa
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- Diomidis Spinellis
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- Rafael Monnerat
- Bryan Cantrill
- Jeffrey Dean
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- Douglas C. Schmidt
- Andrew Patzer
- Karl Fogel
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| 3.29 | 11 reads | |
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| 3.94 | 21 reads | |
