The Art of UNIX Programming

" Reading this book has filled a gap in my education I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIR s really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than Lever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense. " Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, Test Driven Development, and Contributing to Eclipse. " A delightful, fascinating read, and the lessons in problem-solving are essential to every programmer, on any OS. " Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C ++. Writing better software : 30 years of UNIX development wisdom. In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that make UNIX home to the world's best and most innovative software, and shows how three are carried forward in Linux and today's open-source movement. Using examples from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that's more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and langer-lived.