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Also, you can see most of these criticisms handled quite impartially in Eric Raymond's "The Art of Unix Programming," which I'd say is required reading for any

Also, you can see most of these criticisms handled quite impartially in Eric Raymond's "The Art of Unix Programming," which I'd say is required reading for any would-be "hacker."

tptacek 18y ago
Except that everything in that book is cribbed from better primary sources, not the least of which are Kernighan+Plaugher's "Software Tools", Stevens APUE, and "The Unix Haters Handbook".