What Programming Book Should I Read Next?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/26/2014 4:42 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On the topic of professional growth, I was asked this week in a work meeting
> what I think I can do for mine.... and I didn't really have an answer.
>
> Maybe this is arrogant or whatever, but my view is that I'm kinda maxed out as a
> programmer. Sure, there's a handful of specific things (like framework method
> names) I don't know and some concepts I don't know the names of, but as for like
> revolutionary new lessons, I don't think I've actually learned anything like
> that directly related to programming for a pretty long time.
>
> Then I was asked what about team dynamics and stuff... but even there, I've been
> doing this a pretty long time now. You know what I spend most my time talking
> about with my programming co-worker? Recipe swapping and church stuff. And I
> don't mean D Cookbook recipes, i mean stuff like baking bread and pies. We're
> both pretty good at our day jobs and tend to be on the same page on work related
> stuff more often than not anyway.

Interestingly, I've been programming for 40 years, and I'm constantly learning 
new ways of programming. It's a combination of experience, changing hardware, 
and new ideas.

The Warp program I did for FB, for example, is pretty unlike anything I've 
written before in the way it's put together.