Fair enough, but try picking up any other computer science book from that era an...

panic · on April 30, 2013

Thinking Forth was published the same year and is still very relevant.

mzs · on April 30, 2013

TAOCP Knuth

C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie

The Practice of Programming Kernighan and Pike

eru · on May 1, 2013

I still like K&R's C book, and have used it to teach C to a friend last year.

The Practice of Programming shows more signs of its age. It is a good read, but it could do with an update.