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A comment on The Art of Unix Programming (2008).

Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by bogolisk on Sunday May 25, 2014 @09:08AM (#7796231)
If you think that fetchmail is the best program ever written and DK's knowledge and intellect is at the same level as ESR then you deserve this book.
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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by dewarrn1 on Sunday May 25, 2014 @09:43AM (#7796302)
OK, so you don't think much of ESR. Any alternative recommendations in the same topic area?
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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by abecedarius on Sunday May 25, 2014 @10:40AM (#7796438)
Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment.

(I consider ESR's book worthwhile too, and it's less outdated. But K&P is the purest expression I've seen of how to Unix.)

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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by myg204 on Sunday May 25, 2014 @10:09AM (#7796362)
Who is DK?
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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by richardkmichael on Sunday May 25, 2014 @10:45AM (#7796451)
Very likely, Donald Knuth. ESR's title is suggestive of Knuth's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming.
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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by dallos on Monday May 26, 2014 @02:16AM (#7798898)
Should be DEK, not DK.
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