Story About Ping
by Marjorie Flack · first published 1933
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6HN commenters
2011–2021first – last mentioned
33% recommend50% neutral17% critical
A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.
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I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published. Still a classic to this day. Excerpt: ...The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment,…
on “The story of the Ping program (2001)” ↗This is pretty hilarious from the amazon review quoted in the article: But even with these problems, The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage…
on “The Story of the Ping Program” ↗…Learning -- Software Estimation -- Foundations of Programming -- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs -- The Passionate Programmer -- Facts And Fallacies of Software Engineering -- Getting Real -- The Story About Ping Depressing.
on “What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?” ↗> I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published... I think you mean "shortly after it appeared on Amazon" since the book was old when I was a kid in the 1960s, pre Internet and pre Amazon. (Or your commend extends…
on “The story of the Ping program (2001)” ↗>The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage…
on “Funniest reviews” ↗Sorry, I meant "shortly after the review was published," not the book. In fact "The Story About Ping" was a favorite children's book of mine when I was young (in the '70s) and I still have that copy.
on “The story of the Ping program (2001)” ↗From the review: "The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage…
on “I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka” ↗