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Who recommended it

1. 

   Jeff Atwood Co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse

   Explicit recommendation

   On his developer reading list, one of several Edward Tufte books he includes.

   Recommended Reading for Developers↗ Blog postblog.codinghorror.com Coding Horror · 2 Feb 2004 · checked 12 Nov 2026

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