On my desk, you'll find a small group of sacred works set between old-fashioned metal bookends with cork bottoms. All of these advanced books have rare qualities in common: They do not tutor, they are ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...

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UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...

This is a book about Unix programming, but in it we’re going to toss around the words “culture,” “art,” and “philosophy” a lot. If you are not a programmer, or you are a programmer who has had little ...

The Art of Unix Programming (TAoUP), by Eric S. Raymond, is not a tutorial or how-to book. Instead, it is a book about the history and philosophy of Unix. But no other book has had a greater influence ...

Last week's discussion about development languages was, I thought, both wide ranging and interesting. In particular I ended up trying to understand to what extent, if at all, organizational structures ...