About the Author

image Marc Rochkind has been a professional programmer for 46 years. He joined Bell Labs in 1970, after graduating in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and found himself in the right place and at the right time to get involved with UNIX when it was still written in assembly language, programming in C before it even had structures. His best-known contribution was the Source Code Control System, the ancestor of all version control systems. While at Bell Labs, he got an MS in Computer Science so he would have a degree in his chosen field. He wrote his first book, Advanced UNIX Programming, almost 30 years ago. Since ...

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