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Book / Literature Recommendations
- Subject: Book / Literature Recommendations
- From: rsk at gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec)
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:41:55 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:48:45AM +0100, James Bensley wrote:
> What is the single best book you have read on networking?
Elements of Networking Style, Michael A. Padlipsky, 1984. How could anyone
*not* love a book which includes this in the foreword:
Brace yourselves. We are about to try something that borders
on the unique: an actually rather serious technical book which
is not only (gasp) vehemently anti-Solemn but also (shudder)
takes sides. I tend to think of it as "Constructive Snottiness".
---rsk
p.s. And anything/everything Stevens wrote.