Recommended Reading

Some books that are well written and will give some idea of what can be done:

Robert M. Pirsig, ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ (An interesting book about motorcycling, ,the human psyche, ‘quality’ and — a little — about technical writing, all well written)

Douglas R. Hofstadter: ‘Gödel, Escher Bach – an Eternal Golden Braid’ (Some of the finest writing ever on the concept of ‘Strange Loops’ which manages to get some rather technical points of AI and programming across without being boring)

Donald Knuth: ‘The Te X book’ (One of the finest software manuals ever written. Even the more arcane aspects of TeX are clearly explained in an entertaining way) The VAX manuals, a.k.a. ‘The Orange Wall’ (Tons of paper, the best set of software documentation ever. Much better than most man pages and galaxies ahead of PC-software documentation)