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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
EAN: 9780131429017
ISBN: 0131429019
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: October 03, 2003
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Sales Rank: 423873
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Rating:  - Unix triumph at its best
First of all this book is also available online and is thus very accessible to many more people. It is a delight to read and I would call it a classic.It is really better appreciated by experienced Unix/Linux users, but would be useful to other audiences. The style is easy to read and very philosophic, mixing the lessons from Zen with the pragmatism of Unix design and culture. The principles and examples it teaches are really applicable to different areas of software engineering, not only Unix and ... Read More
Rating: - Extremely enjoyable, but at times a bit overly biased.
I just finished reading The Art of UNIX Programming. In short, I liked it a lot.
Here are a few fun quotes:
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming -- Brian Kernighan [p. 14]
Software design and implementation should be a joyous art, a kind of high-level play...To do Unix philosophy right, you need to have (or recover) that attitude. [p. 27]
Microsoft actually admitted publicly that NT security is impossible in March ... Read More
Rating:  - Good but not essential
A good book to read, but certainly not in anyway essential or required reading. The title is hideously misleading as the book should really be titled something like "Observations on what makes UNIX successful" or "UNIX culture" as it has nothing to do with UNIX programming and more with the design patterns and practices that have made UNIX successful. In fact some of the cases you are given as examples are far enough from what can generously considered to be UNIX that you really have to wonder why Raymond ... Read More
Rating: - compares different languages
Ever wonder about the relative popularity of various computer languages? Tired of the interminable discussions in newsgroups about which language is better than another? It turns out that the most distinctive feature of Raymond's book is Chapter 14. It gives a semiquantitative assessment of C, C++, Perl, Tcl, Python, Java and emacs Lisp, as of March 2003.
A fascinating and provocative look at the relative rise and fall. Raymond compares this to an earlier survey in 1997. He shows that C, C++, ... Read More
Rating: - Changed the Way I Designed My Own Software Development
Learning what this book had to teach was a pivotal point in my software development career... it was the first time I came to an awareness of looking at HOW the design and development process occurred in my job, and really thinking about WHY we did certain things the way we did. My own development methods changed drastically after reading this book, and my own visible changes have had an impact on those that work with me (i.e. it got them thinking as well about how they did their development). ESR's book ... Read More
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