Michael Tobis wrote:
> K&R is a unique book. I have never seen anything comparable
> for any language.

I'd say the definition for the language Scheme is pretty astounding.
The entire language, including semantics, is just 48 pages (R5RS):

http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/

Python owes a lot to scheme, so this post is not off topic :-)