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The Art of UNIX Programming

Author: Eric S Raymond

"Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever 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-solvng 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 these 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 longer-lived.

Raymond incorporates commentary from thirteen UNIX pioneers:

• Ken Thompson, the inventor of UNIX.
• Ken Arnold, part of the group that created the 4BSD UNIX releases and co-author of The Java Programming Language.
• Steven M. Bellovin, co-creator of Usenet and co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security.
• Stuart Feldman, a member of the Bell Labs UNIX development group and the author of make and f77.
• Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, principal architects of the X windowing system.
• Steve Johnson, author of yacc and of the Portable C Compiler.


• Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, The UNIX Programming Environment, The Practice of Programming, and of the awk programming language.
• David Korn, creator of the korn shell and author of The New Korn Shell Command and Programming Language.


• Mike Lesk, a member of the Bell Labs development group and author of the ms macro package, the tbl and refer tools,lex and UUCP.


• Doug McIlroy, Director of the Bell Labs research group where UNIX was born and inventor of the UNIX pipe.
• Marshall Kirk McKusick, developer of the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and a leader of the 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD teams.
• Henry Spencer, a leader among early UNIX developers, who created getopt, the first open-source string library, and a regular-expression engine used in 4.4BSD.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
I	Context	1
1	Philosophy: Philosophy Matters	3
2	History: A Tale of Two Cultures	29
3	Contrasts: Comparing the Unix Philosophy with Others	53
II	Design	81
4	Modularity: Keeping It Clean, Keeping It Simple	83
5	Textuality: Good Protocols Make Good Practice	105
6	Transparency: Let There Be Light	133
7	Multiprogramming: Separating Processes to Separate Function	157
8	Minilanguages: Finding a Notation That Sings	183
9	Generation: Pushing the Specification Level Upwards	215
10	Configuration: Starting on the Right Foot	231
11	Interfaces: User-Interface Design Patterns in the Unix Environment	253
12	Optimization	287
13	Complexity: As Simple As Possible, but No Simpler	295
III	Implementation	319
14	Languages: To C or Not To C?	321
15	Tools: The Tactics of Development	349
16	Reuse: On Not Reinventing the Wheel	375
IV	Community	391
17	Portability: Software Portability and Keeping Up Standards	393
18	Documentation: Explaining Your Code to a Web-Centric World	417
19	Open Source: Programming in the New Unix Community	437
20	Futures: Dangers and Opportunities	461
	A: Glossary of Abbreviations	479
	B: References	483
	C: Contributors	495
D	Rootless Root: The Unix Koans of Master Foo	499
	Index	511

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