It was the right time, the right book, for me. Probably many other books would have had the same affect on me, if I had read them instead that month. But it made me laugh and think
Similar for me actually. I don’t know if it was this book or another one. (The one I read implemented trig functions in a later chapter.)
But by early-mid aughts when I was curious about programming, I found a perl book that was available to read online for free. Never did use much Perl after that, but learned to think that way.
In the 1990s, the book that got me excited was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Perl.
It was the right time, the right book, for me. Probably many other books would have had the same affect on me, if I had read them instead that month. But it made me laugh and think
Similar for me actually. I don’t know if it was this book or another one. (The one I read implemented trig functions in a later chapter.)
But by early-mid aughts when I was curious about programming, I found a perl book that was available to read online for free. Never did use much Perl after that, but learned to think that way.