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Re: recommended reading?



On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15):
>>Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment.
> 
> Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but now
> it's obsolete.
> 
> 
> Thorsten

Not by any means. It remains an excellent starter book for Unix beginners.

And not just for beginners.  I *still* use my aging and dog-eared copy on
occasion.

-- 
....................paul

It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer.
               -- Sun System & Network Admin manual




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