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The Art of UNIX Programming [repost]

Posted By: tarantoga
The Art of UNIX Programming [repost]

The Art of UNIX Programming
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0131429019 | 2003 | CHM | 560 pages | 1 Mb


Unix ranks among the great engineering accomplishments of the last half of the twentieth century, and its heir–Linux–seems already imposing and still on its way to achieving its full potential. Eric S. Raymond argues in The Art of UNIX Programming that the excellence of Unix derives as much from the fact that it was (and continues to be) a community effort as from the fact that a lot of smart people have worked to design and build it. Raymond, best known as the author of the open-source manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar, says in his preface that this is a "why-to" book, rather than a "how-to" book. It aims to show new Unix programmers why they should work under the old "hacker ethic"–embracing the principles of good software design for its own sake and of code-sharing.