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From that scene in Hackers where they were listing off books with nicknames (ex. Compiler: Principles, Techniques and Tools, aka "The Dragon Book," I ended up being curious about what other books might also have the same treatment. This is the current list I have, scoured from places like Wikipedia, Amazon and other forums, but I wondered if anyone found anything else? (This is just for my own curiosity)

The AWK Programming Language, Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan, aka "The Gray Book"

The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, aka "The White Book"

Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, aka "The Red/Purple Dragon Book"

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, aka "The Pillar Book"

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, aka "The Devil Book"

Foundations of Computer Science, Aho, Alfred and Ullman, Jeffrey, aka "The Turtle Book"

Introduction to Automata Theory, aka "The Cinderella Book"

Lions' Commentary on UNIX, 6th Edition, aka "The Lions Book"

Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, aka "The Tiger Book"

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, aka "The Comet Book"

The OpenGL Programming Guide, aka "The Red Book"

The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC, aka "The Pink Shirt Book"

Principles of Compiler Design, aka "The Green Dragon Book"

Programming Perl, aka "The Camel Book"

Programming Ruby, aka "The Pickaxe Book"

Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation, aka "The Blue Book"

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, aka "The Wizard Book"

Unix Power Tools, aka "The Unix Book"