Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or

less green than the designated hitter rule.

David Guaspari

Further Reading

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's

the best book on anything for the layman.

Alan J. Perlis

We offer this list of works for further reading on related topics. The list is necessarily duosyncraticother
excellent works exist on many of these topics. Of course, all the books in this series are recommended for
their respective topics.

Java Platform Topics

http://java.sun.com/, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Current information on the Java programming language and related topics, including releases, security

issues, and online documentation.

http://java.sun.com/Series/, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Current information about books in this series, including errata and updates. Of special interest will be

those errata and updates for this book.

The Unicode Standard 4.0, Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0321185781.

More data on Unicode is available at http://www.unicode.org.

IEEE/ANSI Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers, 1985, IEEE Std 754-1985.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languagetemp0294.html

One site where you can find two-letter ISO 639 codes for languages.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/countrietemp0294.html

One site where you can find two-letter ISO 3166 codes for countries.

"Uniprocessor Garbage Collection Techniques," by Paul R. Wilson, University of Texas, in

revision for ACM Computing Surveysalso available from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/oops/