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I bought this book years ago, and the title is misleading. It is not so much a programming, as ESR's personal interpretation of UNIX culture and values. If you
by danieldk 16y ago
I bought this book years ago, and the title is misleading. It is not so much a programming, as ESR's personal interpretation of UNIX culture and values.
If you like ESR, you will probably love it. If not, it will read like unstructured drivel.
Maybe, I am too negative. But if you are a non-UNIX programmer, and have to work on a UNIX project, there are far better books available. (E.g. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen Rago)
- djacobs 16y agoTo be fair, the subject of the title is "Art" and the object is "Programming". This is about the art and care that developers should put into the Unix community and the tools they build. In a way, it's an intro to the mindset and philosophy of openness in technology.
- uriel 16y ago> Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen Rago Stevens was a great writer, but his books covered precisely all that was and is wrong with 'modern' Unix systems, they could be considered a summary of what is the opposite to the Unix philosophy. To truly understand the Unix way, Pike and Kernighan's The Unix Programming Environment is by far the best choice.