programming books that are more than a decade old are either: A) useless or B) timeless there is no middle ground
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C) hilarious (just think of all the off hand predictions like "we likely won't need this hack in the future")
my favorite one of these was my undergrad networking book (Tanenbaum) which was an edition old even at the time, and included my favorite phrase "it is not yet clear whether HTTP or Gopher will become the dominant protocol of the Internet"
