My condolences as well.

me too! canned.primat.es at gmail dot com

Absolutely - if only to be able to read things like Tonika and Doozer.

A Few Good Men from UNIVAC

...and it's intentionally structured in a way that mirrors K&R!

What's wrong with the Giraffe Book? http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565922617

I only found out about it after I had started writing this one. I have never seen a physical copy of it.

I also think the fairly brutal way that the Learn X The Hard Way format forces you through typing in working code is a good way for people to learn how to 'read' a new/weird syntax <-- not meant derogatively, just strangely unfamiliar.

There's a paper about Spotify's internals which is quite interesting: http://www.nada.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10.... (another happy user here)

I thought this is being continued as http://xsb.sf.net ?

Have you seen http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1635 (Lightweight static capabilities)? Author's page: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/lightweight-dependent-typin...

I had not seen that, thanks for the pointer!

In particular, the Usenix talk about Capsicum has been recorded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNx9L4VH2k