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"The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ADDISON-WESLEY ANNOUNCES ERIC S. RAYMOND's LATEST BOOK: "The Art of UNIX Programming" Expected to Become the Classic Programming Book for the Open Source Generation Upper Saddle River, New Jersey (October 2, 2003) - Addison-Wesley, the leading publisher of advanced technology books, announces the release of Eric S. Raymond's latest book, "The Art of UNIX Programming", (ISBN 0-13-142901-9). (UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.) Raymond, who is a celebrated leader of the open source software movement and a recognized authority on Internet 'hacker' history and culture, has written this book to convey the traditions of software design embodied in the best UNIX and Linux software, 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 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" 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. About Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR Addison-Wesley (www.awprofessional.com) and Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference (PHPTR) (www.phptr.com) are respected publishers of quality computer science and engineering books and software for technical professionals. Both imprints are units of Pearson Technology Group, the world's largest provider of consumer and professional computer, information technology, engineering and reference content. Pearson Technology Group is an operating unit of Pearson Education, the world's leading educational publisher. Pearson Education is part of Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. ### Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. (Log in to post comments)
Enjoyed reading it Posted Oct 2, 2003 20:37 UTC (Thu) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link] I read some of the prerelease draft online, and I got my paper copy on Tuesday. Quite enjoyable and helpful.
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 2, 2003 21:13 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link] #1 hacker?? puh-leeze.. what has ESR "hacked" lately? His beloved fetchmail was simply a fork of someone else's project. And I've read that fetchmail is notoriously buggy and no longer actively maintained.RMS or Linus are clearer better nominees.
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 2, 2003 21:18 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] fetchmail is mature and extra features will not be added without good reason; but the latest version was released Aug 13 this year.Sounds maintained to me.
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 3, 2003 0:26 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] GCC, GDB, EMACS. ESR is a hacker dwarf compared to RMS. (and compared to Torvalds)SourceForge allowed it's users to rate other users. Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman weren't SourceForge users, but the mass media won't be told this. RMS also hacked all or parts of bison, yacc, gnulib, libc, tar, ld, and probably a dozen other projects. Alan Cox is another hacker I'd rank about a thousand places ahead of ESR. Ciaran O'Riordan
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 3, 2003 16:38 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] <sigh>Yeah, we get it, ok? Everyone contributes in different ways. Let's just call rms, ESR, AC, Linux, and oh, about the next 2 dozen "tier-one" hackers, ok? ;-)
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 3, 2003 16:57 UTC (Fri) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link] but why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel? ;-)
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 3, 2003 17:45 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] How long do you have? :)When I first saw this story, I decided to post a load of excerpts from the book which in my opinion constitute the author rewriting history. This annoys and offends me and it's important to set the record straight, but time is limited. I could spend time writing an article here, or I could be working on a letter to the Irish representitive to the Coucil of Ministers regarding the Councils decision on the proposed software patents directive. Resisting the temptation to give out about ESRs (fictional) book is hard :) (he's a jackass)
criticise actions, not people Posted Oct 5, 2003 22:37 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] I retract my remark about ESR. It is his actions I have issues with, not the man himself.
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 6, 2003 8:55 UTC (Mon) by tyhik (subscriber, #14747) [Link] Can you please stop it. Every more or less regular lwn reader knows that you hate esr (well, his actions). And I promise to remember this for the rest of my life.Thanks for your great work on EU patent issues and other things. I think your comments on THESE issues have made the lwn a better reading indeed. tyhik
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 7, 2003 11:54 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] I presume you meant RMS wrote EMACS?You *are* aware, that if you list the authors of EMACS in order of code contributed, that I think ESR ranks second to RMS? Oh, for the other poster who ranted about fetchmail - ESR was well known as a hacker long before he even looked at popmail ... Although I do agree ESR likes rewriting history on occasion. But he calls himself "the hacker anthropologist" - isn't rewriting history what all anthropologists do? Cheers,
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 3, 2003 9:20 UTC (Fri) by nettings (subscriber, #429) [Link] yeah, my dad can kick your dad's ass.
#1 hacker?? Posted Oct 3, 2003 19:42 UTC (Fri) by katsklaw (guest, #15643) [Link] Perhaps you could be so kind as to share a few of your projects.
Open Source book? Posted Oct 2, 2003 23:45 UTC (Thu) by andrel (subscriber, #5166) [Link] The publisher proclaims "Expected to Become the Classic Programming Book for the Open Source Generation". Is the book being released under an Open Source license, or is this just marketing hyperbole?
Open Source book? Posted Oct 3, 2003 0:31 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] It's available under the least permissive Creative Commons license: "Attribution required, No derivitive works permitted" with some extra restrictions added by ESR.So no, it's not OpenSource, and yes, this press release is marketing hyperbole.
"The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released Posted Oct 3, 2003 4:24 UTC (Fri) by zander76 (guest, #6889) [Link] Man oh man are you guys funny. Who cares, its highly unlikely that he wrote anything that says he is the number 1 hacker. If that comment is found anywere it was by some publisher that doesn't know any thing.Anyway, this comment is about a book that was published and your person opinions of the publisher meants that you can't follow a topic long enought to be a world class hacker. So if thats the case then you don't have anything to say. You only get to say something in linux (and not be called a troll) if you have done something noteworthy. Keep the comments to the book and not the people, some of the worst programmers and the best writers, they just can't follow there own docs. Later, Zander
"The Art of UNIX Programming": Good book. Posted Oct 3, 2003 16:33 UTC (Fri) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] I reviewed earlier versions of this book, and I think it's a good book. I certainly don't agree with every statement in it, but Eric does a good job at something very difficult: capturing a mindset instead of simple syntax or semantics. Decades of thinking about how to engineer software are embodied in the so-called "Unix culture", and it's important to capture this experience. This book does a good job of capturing it.
"The Art of UNIX Programming": Good book. Posted Oct 3, 2003 18:45 UTC (Fri) by wweber (guest, #11678) [Link] Decades of thinking about how to engineer software are embodied in the so-called "Unix culture", and it's important to capture this experience. Does the GNU culture take after the Unix culture? Or does it transcend it somehow? Of course there are trolls out there who would say 'To code for Linux all you need do is use "a100yy :e vmlinuz.c "ap :e unixware.c until you've copied all the code from *nix!'
"The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released Posted Oct 4, 2003 19:59 UTC (Sat) by kunitz (subscriber, #3965) [Link] The best test for a book is the test of time. If it's still relevant afterten years it is a great book. Some time tested works are: Donald R. Knuth "The Art of Computer Programming" W. Richard Stevens "Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment" W. Richard Stevens "UNIX Network Programming -- Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI" Kernighan Ritchie "The C Programming Language" 2nd edition Further away: John L. Hennessy & David A. Patterson "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach"
"The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released Posted Oct 16, 2003 22:46 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] Your forgot _The_Mythical_Man_Month_, by Fred Brooks.
"The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released Posted Oct 18, 2003 17:34 UTC (Sat) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] I agree with this entire list, except that C should only be used for a small number of tasks, like writing operating systems, device drivers, and parts of performance-critical applications.
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