May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
15h 18m
English
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Programming with the Unix Mindset
We expect that this book has helped you learn to "think Unix" in a modern context. The first two books in this list are the original presentations of the Unix "toolbox" programming methodology. The third book looks at the broader programming facilities available under Unix. The fourth and fifth are about programming in general, and also very worthwhile. We note that any book written by Brian Kernighan deserves careful reading, usually several times.
Software Tools, Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, U.S.A., 1976. ISBN 0-201-03669-X.
A wonderful book[2] that presents the design and code for programs equivalent to Unix's grep, sort, ed, and others. The programs use Ratfor (Rational Fortran), a preprocessor for Fortran with C-like control structures.
Software Tools in Pascal, Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, U.S.A., 1981. ISBN 0-201-10342-7.
A translation of the previous book into Pascal. Still worth reading; Pascal provides many things that Fortran does not.
The Unix Programming Environment, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, U.S.A., 1984. ISBN 0-13-937699-2 (hardcover), 0-13-937681-X (paperback).
This books focuses explicitly on Unix, using the tools in that environment. In particular, it adds important material on the shell, awk, and the use of lex and yacc. See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe.
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