Art of UNIX Programming, The (Paperback)

Eric Raymond

ISBN 10: 0131429019 / ISBN 13: 9780131429017

Verlag: Pearson Education (US), Boston, 2003

Beschreibung

Paperback. The Art of UNIX Programming poses the belief that understanding the unwritten UNIX engineering tradition and mastering its design patterns will help programmers of all stripes to become better programmers. This book attempts to capture the engineering wisdom and design philosophy of the UNIX, Linux, and Open Source software development community as it has evolved over the past three decades, and as it is applied today by the most experienced programmers. Eric Raymond offers the next generation of hackers the unique opportunity to learn the connection between UNIX philosophy and practice through careful case studies of the very best UNIX/Linux programs. In addition, commentary is provided by Brian Kernighan, UNIX pioneer and best-selling author; Doug McIlroy, the inventor of the UNIX pipg; David Korn, the inventor of the korn shell; Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, inventors of X windows; Henry Spencer, an original UNIX hacker; and Ken Arnold, an original BSD developer and JINI creator; Mike Lesk, author of the legendary uucp, lex, and tbl programs; and Sturat Feldman, author of UNIX's famous make utility. The book is divided into 4 parts. Part I explores the philosophy behind the development of UNIX. Part II explores design principles and patterns that are at the core of the UNIX tradition. Part III covers the rich UNIX tradition of reuse and the amazing variety of programming tools available to the UNIX developer. Part IV explores the UNIX open standards process, and the advantage in portability that UNIX enjoys. Helps the readers understand that Unix is really a style of community. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Art of UNIX Programming, The (Paperback)
• Verlag: Pearson Education (US), Boston
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0131429019
• ISBN-13: 9780131429017
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand: new

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" Reading this book has filled a gap in my education I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIR s really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than Lever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities. From this perspective, Eric makes UNIX make perfect sense. " Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, Test Driven Development, and Contributing to Eclipse. " A delightful, fascinating read, and the lessons in problem-solving are essential to every programmer, on any OS. " Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C ++. Writing better software : 30 years of UNIX development wisdom. In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that make UNIX home to the world's best and most innovative software, and shows how three are carried forward in Linux and today's open-source movement. Using examples from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that's more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and langer-lived.

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ERIC S. RAYMOND has been a Unix developer since 1982. Known as the resident anthropologist and roving ambassador of the open-source community, he wrote the movement's manifesto in The Cathedral and the Bazaar and is the editor of The New Hacker's Dictionary.