The best Programming books?

[ichabod801]

I do suspect that programming will become more machine aided than it currently is. I'm actually surprised by how little it is at this point

I think part of the problem is that people are aiming this stuff at non-programmer audiences, like managers (SAS), researchers (SPSS), and kids (Mindstorms). I don't think they're aiming tools at programmers so much.

I also think humans don't understand how to do it well. We build packages for each other to use, but those packages can then limit the person implementing them. One of the problems with the web application at my last job was the "spreadsheet" interface. But that was a third-party application, and our developers couldn't or wouldn't mess with it.