This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...
Teaches students how to develop complex applications based on the UNIX/POSIX standard. Topics include UNIX standardization and implementation, shell programming, system calls, library function, ...
A mosaic of desktops, toolkits, and command line rituals reveal a culture that prizes control, polish, and tinkering.
Originally written in one month during the summer of ’69, a little operating system called Unix would go on to be one of the most important pieces of software ever written. Four decades later, the ...