From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tih@hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:16:31 +0200 Subject: basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: (Clem Cole's message of "Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:52:50 -0400") References: Message-ID: Clem Cole 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