Online forum users like to use acronyms for lots of things, such as the common IMO (In My Opinion). Users on Hacker News also like to use abbreviations people (for example Richard Stallman is RMS), and books. I have queried my data on the book recommendations from hacker news for the acronyms used to refer to books. See the previous post for how I queried chatgpt to identify book titles. I did find that ChatGPT got a few wrong, for example at times it thought CLR referred to the book by K&R, “The C Programming Language”, and half the time it thought that CTM referred to “Concrete Mathematics” by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik.
One book on the list below that I haven’t heard of before is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi. It looks intriguing as a survey of different types of programming language features, but I’m not sure about the fact that its examples are written in an obscure programming language called Oz. It might be interesting to try reading it.
Here are the acronyms I have found, in alphabetical order. Let me know if you think there should be any additions to that list:
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