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On this one, I am going to quote the Stingy Scholar directly ('cause I can't beat this):
"I'm going to make a leap of faith and say this massive collection of free pdf eBooks is completely legit. I'm also going to lock my windows to keep the leprechauns from beating the tooth fairy to those molars under the pillow. But hey, if this is piracy, this is Blackbeard caliber work. A near limitless collection of business books, programming resources, comic books, and more. So get them while they last...or take a moral stand...whatever. As they always say, piracy is the highest form of flattery."
I had a lot of fun at the site, especially because I own many of the books. A very nice touch the site is some down-and-dirty reviews of the books they are offering, such as this anti-plug for "Higher-order Perl":
Hal Abelson is responsible for a famous epigram, "If I haven't seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
This book is solidly enough written, but it's a cut-down, shallow rehash of a few justly famous functional programming textbooks. The first is Abelson and Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"; the second, Bird and Wadler's "Introduction to Functional Programming".
If you want to really learn deep truths about programming, go buy those two books. If they leave you scratching your head about how to transmogrify what you learn into Perl, buy Schwartz's "Perls of Wisdom".
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