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oh my god that person wrote "The Art of Unix Programming" I binge read it last week and it was exceptional. What a world. These are the kind of people that I lo
by sweeter 2y ago
oh my god that person wrote "The Art of Unix Programming" I binge read it last week and it was exceptional. What a world. These are the kind of people that I look up to and aspire to be like.
- klez 2y agoThat person (Eric S. Raymond) also wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[0], a seminal work for the Open Source movement. [0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
- boffinAudio 2y agoSee also, "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", which I seem to recall was also monospace presented in the good ol' days ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co... Or maybe it was just a plain ol' textfile, I forget.
- baq 2y agojust came here to say your post makes me feel old. esr was a classic a cool 20 years ago. enjoy!