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Old timers, what did you read to study Unix or languages by the book?

3•theyknowitsxmas•2h ago
Rather than all the lousy camps and tuts out there I am wondering what the old timers read for Computer Science that is still relevant today.

Free space:

-The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie

-RTFM

Comments

sebg•2h ago
https://linux.die.net/man/
jleyank•2h ago
K&R, Stevens, Borne’s shell book. Other books from the bell lab people.
AnimalMuppet•1h ago
The C++ Programming Language by Stroutrup

Programming Perl (the camel book)

Unix I just kind of learned by using it.

jonahbenton•1h ago
Don Knuths AoCP

SICP, Abelson and Sussman

Stroustrup

Aho and Ullman compilers

A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System

GNU C Library

Michael Kerrisks books are newer but are exceptional

bediger4000•46m ago
Jon Bentley's original 2-volume "Programming Pearls". I haven't looked at the 2nd, single volume, edition.

Pike and Kernighan's "The Unix Programming Environment", and their later book "The Practice of Programming"

Usenix put out a refereed journal "Computing Systems" that was really good: https://www.usenix.org/publications/compsystems/computing-sy...

skydhash•3m ago
I'm not an old timers, but I have the following books in my library:

- The Design of the Unix Operating System

- The elements of programming style

- Code Complete, 2nd Edition

- The Art of Unix Programming

- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

- TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1

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