Imagine that someone less holy  would post a list of supposedly remarkable projects in CS without mentioning McCarthy&#x27;s LISP, Kay&#x27;s Smalltalk, Armstrong&#x27;s Erlang, Stallman&#x27;s Emacs, Cox&#x27;s Plan9, git of Linus, etc. How would you react?<p>Like in this example, these books I have mentioned are not even a matter of opinion, they are such masterpieces, without which no list could be considered worth having.<p>You probably pissing up the wrong tree.