From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: basic tools / Universal Unix
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:39:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2843a46b-9524-a1a8-1d62-f0a5f7daca92@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2inff556o.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no>
On 2017-10-16 2:16 PM, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
>
>> When I answer questions on quora about learning Linux and other UNIX
>> derivative, I still point them at their book: *The Unix Programming
>> Environment*
>
> I never got around to reading that book until I'd been a sysadmin for
> about twenty years, and it was still a revelation. I thought I'd just
> skim through it to sort of check it off the list, but I ended up
> learning a lot of great stuff.
>
> That one, and Kernighan and Pike: "The Practice of Programming", are two
> books I keep recommending to people.
"The Elements of Programming Style" remains as relevant as ever.
--Toby
>
> -tih
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-16 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-16 17:52 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2017-10-16 18:16 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-16 20:39 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2017-10-16 18:54 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2017-10-17 13:51 ` Tony Finch
2017-10-17 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-16 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 0:55 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-30 2:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-16 20:39 ` Andy Kosela
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