> 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

> 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.