On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
wrote:
>
> Quoth Lee Fallat on Sat, Apr 25 2015 21:57 -0400:
>>
>> The UNIX Hater's Handbook. A great perspective on UNIX.
>
>
> In what way? I remember a chapter-length rant about rm(1) being
> broken because it actually removed things and
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
wrote:
> - K&R
> - The practice of programming
> - The dragon book
> - The standard C library. P.J. Plauger
> - Lions book
> - The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach
> - The art of unix programming
> - Let's build a compiler (
> - The awk language
> - Software Tools in Pascal, Kernighan and Plauger (I think there is
> a version of this book in C, isn't it?)
I have both of them.
The first version of Software Tools is written in ratfor which is
almost a C dialect but doesn't support recursion and structures. None
the
Project Oberon (New Edition 2013):
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/
"The little schemer" is a cute fun book which is more about recursion
and abstraction than Lisp.
Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
(http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook
Lee,
Quoth Lee Fallat on Sat, Apr 25 2015 21:57 -0400:
The UNIX Hater's Handbook. A great perspective on UNIX.
In what way? I remember a chapter-length rant about rm(1) being
broken because it actually removed things and some (accurate)
complaints about X; otherwise, Dennis Ritchie's preface s
The UNIX Hater's Handbook. A great perspective on UNIX.
And from a time when unix was about to happen, or let's call it the
mindset that made it happen, I'm really very fond of Chris Brooks'
"The Design Of Design".
cheers!
mar77i
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 02:37:58AM -0400, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Good books and papers come up frequently in [dev] threads, many
>of which must be new to some readers. Would there be any value in
>adding a 'Books' section to suckless.org/rocks for less-sucking
>programming rea
wizard book
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
>> >- K&R
>> >- The practice of programming
>> >- The dragon book
>> >- The standard C library. P.J. Plauger
>> >- Lions book
>> >- The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach
>> >- The art of unix programming
>> >- Let
On Sat 25 Apr 2015 at 00:20:32 PDT Jakub Lach wrote:
Dnia 25 kwietnia 2015 8:37 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
napisał(a):
A short list of
well-written books following the philosophy of simplicity would be
a great antidote to current fashion.
I'm currently searching for similar thing, though the f
> >- K&R
> >- The practice of programming
> >- The dragon book
> >- The standard C library. P.J. Plauger
> >- Lions book
> >- The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach
> >- The art of unix programming
> >- Let's build a compiler (this is a articles serie, but
> > there is a compiler version
Roberto,
Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero on Sat, Apr 25 2015 10:25 +0200:
I had a list of these books, but I cannot find it. From
my memory...
Awesome list, thank you.
--
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
FRIGN,
Quoth FRIGN on Sat, Apr 25 2015 09:30 +0200:
> if people mention books like The Unix Programming
> Environment at all, it is for historical interest.
maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but "The Unix Programming
Environment" is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer.
My point e
On Sat 25 Apr 2015 at 01:25:50 PDT Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
Hi,
maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but "The Unix Programming
Environment" is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer.
Even though it has aged over the years, it has aged well and most
practices shown in the book a
http://doc.cat-v.org/
> You should also include The Elements of Programming Style by
> Kernighan & Plauger. My personal favorite computer-related book.
Yeah, and the books of Stevens:
- Advenced programming in the unix environment
- Unix network programming
Regards,
"Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" writes:
> Books that I have in my list of next readings:
>
> - The awk language
> - Software Tools in Pascal, Kernighan and Plauger (I think there is
> a version of this book in C, isn't it?)
You should also include The Elements of Programming Style by
Kernighan
Hi,
> maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but "The Unix Programming
> Environment" is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer.
> Even though it has aged over the years, it has aged well and most
> practices shown in the book are still valid today.
Yeah, it is totally true. There are some p
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 02:37:58 -0400
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
Hey Wolfgang,
> if people mention books like The Unix Programming
> Environment at all, it is for historical interest.
maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but "The Unix Programming
Environment" is _the_ book for every ongoing u
Dnia 25 kwietnia 2015 8:37 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
napisał(a):
> A short list of
> well-written books following the philosophy of simplicity would be
> a great antidote to current fashion.
I'm currently searching for similar thing, though the further removed
from application/programming the be
Hi all,
Good books and papers come up frequently in [dev] threads, many
of which must be new to some readers. Would there be any value in
adding a 'Books' section to suckless.org/rocks for less-sucking
programming reading material?
My lazy searching for decent lists of programming books has turn
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