Hi, * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): >Incoming from Thorsten Haude: >> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >> >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. >> >> Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but >> now it's obsolete. > >I imagine you have the same opinion of Shakespeare? Cicero, >Aristotle, etc., etc.
Your imagination is misleading you. If you can't see the difference
between literature and tool description you should consume more of
the former.
>Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete.
The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of!
It's fucking antediluvian!
>K&P is definitely not obsolete.
Well, it is definitely the only book I ever returned for that reason.
There *are* a number of books from the early nineties that are not
obsolete (and will possibly never be), like Stevens' 'TCP/IP
Illustrated', but Kernighan/Pike is not of this quality.
Thorsten
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