You mention "The Blue Book" of Smalltalk-80, but they were actually three of them: besides that one, the Green Book, a collection of implementation histories and such, and the Orange Book, a user guide to the original environment. And then came the Purple Book, which was originally a new edition of the Blue Book without part IV which became freely available.
I've never heard the compiler books being referenced as the color of the dragon: they were the Dragon Book and the New Dragon Book -- or, as time passed, the Original Dragon Book and the Dragon Book.
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You mention "The Blue Book" of Smalltalk-80, but they were actually three of them: besides that one, the Green Book, a collection of implementation histories and such, and the Orange Book, a user guide to the original environment. And then came the Purple Book, which was originally a new edition of the Blue Book without part IV which became freely available.
I've never heard the compiler books being referenced as the color of the dragon: they were the Dragon Book and the New Dragon Book -- or, as time passed, the Original Dragon Book and the Dragon Book.
Postscript also has red (reference manual), green (program design) and blue (tutorial and cookbook) books