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From: tih@hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Subject: basic tools / Universal Unix
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:16:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2inff556o.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NNsM6jGGD_7=yXq=oUVrvD741Rt=B-Q4-F-xR5Nb-Fkw@mail.gmail.com> (Clem Cole's message of "Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:52:50 -0400")

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.

-tih
-- 
Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
of Lisp.  Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.  --Alan Kay


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16 18:16 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 [this message]
2017-10-16 20:39   ` Toby Thain
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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