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Re: recommended reading?



On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:44:38 -0700, s. keeling wrote:

> 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.  Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't
> mean it's obsolete.  K&P is definitely not obsolete.

Rob Pike, commenting on X:

"I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck."

And, until the recent advent of fast CPUs, he was dead right, of course.

-- 
....................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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