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abstractbill on Sept 10, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Programming Elite, Programmers Who Read

The average software developer, for example, doesn't own a single book on the subject of his or her work, and hasn't ever read one.

I used to own, and read, books about programming. Now my reference books at least are made obsolete by the web.

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