Hi, > maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but "The Unix Programming > Environment" is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer. > Even though it has aged over the years, it has aged well and most > practices shown in the book are still valid today.
Yeah, it is totally true. There are some points that can cause confusion ($@ "$@" $*), but 99% is correct today. I had a list of these books, but I cannot find it. From my memory: - K&R - The practice of programming - The dragon book - The standard C library. P.J. Plauger - Lions book - The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach - The art of unix programming - Let's build a compiler (this is a articles serie, but there is a compiler version) - Linkers and Loaders , published by Morgan-Kaufman - Termcap & terminfo Books that I have in my list of next readings: - The awk language - Software Tools in Pascal, Kernighan and Plauger (I think there is a version of this book in C, isn't it?) Of course, this list is a bit more general and it is about my personal preferences (I cannot call terminfo suckless, but I have to deal with it, and this book is the reference for it). Regards, PD: Another topic, I will continue with the patch review the Monday, that I'm a bit busy now.