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[russell]

Yea, Sedgewick. His books taught me algorithms. they are to the point, readable, and have working code.

[gne1963 → russell]

Yes me too. I still believe that the godfather is Knuth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth think But as you highlight Sedgewick to me was more readable and applicable to the code I was writing in the early 90s.

[Dilpil → russell]

I don't know if I would call his algorithms readable, but they sure are to the point.