RE: LinuxWorld press release from Addison-Wesley

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE			
									
ADDISON-WESLEY ANNOUNCES ERIC S. RAYMOND's FORTHCOMING BOOK: "The Art of
UNIX Programming"

Expected to Become the Classic Programming Book for the Open Source Generation

LinuxWorld, San Francisco (AUGUST 7, 2003) - Addison-Wesley, the leading
publisher of advanced technology books, announces the forthcoming release
of Eric S. Raymond's latest book, "The Art of UNIX Programming", (ISBN
0-13-142901-9), to publish in September, 2003. Raymond, who is a celebrated
leader of the open source software movement and a recognized authority on
Internet 'hacker' history and culture, is writing this book in order to
unleash the best software design practices of the original UNIX designers,
to benefit the current and future generations of programmers.

The book poses the belief that understanding the previously unwritten UNIX
engineering tradition and mastering its design patterns, will help
programmers to improve their craft. The book accomplishes this goal with
contributions from UNIX's greatest visionaries, including UNIX's actual
inventor, Ken Thompson.

Early praise, based upon Raymond's online manuscript for the book
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/, includes: "Just a quick note to thank
you for writing The Art of UNIX Programming.  I earned my Computer Science
degree a decade ago and have spent the time since wondering why no one has
ever written anything like you just did. Excellent." -- Charlie Wood,
Austin, TX

"The Art of UNIX Programming"- making its pre-publication debut at
LinuxWorld 2003- is unique because it exists as an unprecedented
collaboration among the UNIX legends, including commentary within the book
from Thompson, Steven Bellovin (a co-creator of Usenet), David Korn (author
of the Korn shell), Doug McIlroy (Bell Labs icon), in addition to the other
highest-profile contributors to UNIX's powerful three-decade history.

 "I wrote this book especially for the young Linux and open-source
programmers of today, and I'm delighted that so many old UNIX hands
(including Ken Thompson, himself) have contributed in its pages to passing
the tradition forward", Raymond said.

As his approach, Raymond demonstrates the connection between UNIX
philosophy and practice through careful case studies of the very best
UNIX/Linux programs.  In this way, the book captures the engineering wisdom
and design philosophy of the UNIX community as it has evolved over the past
three decades, and as it is applied today by the most respected
programmers.

Early praise for the book from industry experts, includes this comment from
Kent Beck: "Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a
sense of completion, understand that Unix is really a style of
community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did
before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted
from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by
communities. From this perspective, Eric makes Unix make perfect sense." --
Kent Beck, Author of eXtreme Programming Explained, Test Driven
Development, Contributing to Eclipse, and Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns.

Eric S. Raymond is also author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and editor
of The New Hacker's Dictionary.  He is a co-founder of the Open Source
Initiative, one of the two principal advocacy organizations for the open
source software movement. He maintains over thirty software projects, and
has been rated the #1 hacker in the world by a hundred thousand of his
peers on the SourceForge community development site.  To interview Eric
Raymond about "The Art of UNIX Programming" and/or if you're interested in
writing a review of this book, please contact Addison-Wesley Publicist
Heather Fox at 201-236-7139 or email: heather.fox@pearsoned.com.

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