One of the suggestions of “The Pragmatic Programmer” is that you should learn at least one new programming language every year. This is a great suggestion, but after a couple of years its usefulness diminishes, e.g. if one already knows Perl and Python, then the payback on learning Ruby is rather small. Therefore I’m going to concentrate on the foundations of programming languages this year. Here’s my tentative reading list:

• Design Concepts in Programming Languages
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
• Types and Programming Languages

Suggestions welcome.