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• Silver Book: n. Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Repo
  o called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2)....
• Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
  QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
• book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover.
  Many of these are described in this lexicon under their own entries....
• Dragon Book: n. The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V.
  Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986...
• K&R: [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language", esp.
  he classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978...
• Cinderella Book: [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
  So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it....
• Devil Book: n. "The Design and Implementation of the 4.
  3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J....
• Red Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
  QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
• Aluminum Book: [MIT] n. "Common LISP: The Language", by Guy L.
  Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990)....