On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:22:57PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:02:51PM +0200, Mic J wrote: > > > Who is J.R. Steven? > > I think Marc intended to mention W. Richard Stevens. > See http://www.kohala.com
yep, of course. Deeply sorry to have mangled his name. W. Richard Stevens was THE best unix books author *ever*, bar none. He's on a par with such CS giants as Don Knuth, writing-wise. "Advanced Unix programming" is *the* best book to understand how to write Unix code, PERIOD.
