Charles Petzold

There are many books about programming, but not so many about code. Whereas a program is a work of engineering, code is the underlying metaphysical ideal. We all strive to write great code, solid code, readable code, beautiful code, to understand what makes great code, and even at times to grasp how the code we write relates to the hardware on which it runs.

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