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Re: recommended reading?



Hi,

* s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44):
>Incoming from Thorsten Haude:
>> * 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.
>
>I imagine you have the same opinion of Shakespeare?  Cicero,
>Aristotle, etc., etc.

Your imagination is misleading you. If you can't see the difference
between literature and tool description you should consume more of
the former.


>Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete.

The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of!
It's fucking antediluvian!


>K&P is definitely not obsolete.

Well, it is definitely the only book I ever returned for that reason.


There *are* a number of books from the early nineties that are not
obsolete (and will possibly never be), like Stevens' 'TCP/IP
Illustrated', but Kernighan/Pike is not of this quality.


Thorsten
-- 
When all else fails, there's always delusion.
    - Conan O'Brien

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