Sunday, November 4, 2012

Program design in the UNIX† environment - a paper by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan


By Vasudev Ram

Just saw this article (by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan, via this post on Hacker News - Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix. Looks interesting:

Program design in the UNIX† environment, by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan.

Kernighan and Pike were the authors of The Unix Programming Environment, and Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie were the authors of The C Programming Language, two of my favorite programming books of all time, and which I have benefited a lot from reading, throughout my career.

P.S. I didn't know until recently that both Kernighan and Pike were Canadian ...

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises


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