Introduction

Welcome to X Window Programming from Scratch. You'll soon discover that there is much more to the text than the X Window System.

Because the X Window System is an environment, it rests upon a programming language as well as on an operating system. Skills using these as well as elements of object-oriented methodology, trigonometric and geometric functions, and the PostScript language will be detailed in this text.

Clearly, this text is not for the faint of heart.

Instead of requiring you to purchase separate manuals for the X Window System, programming language, operating system, and so forth, the intent of this text is to provide an erector set for computer programmers. Within the covers of this text are all the pieces necessary for ...

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