oh yeah, and about the article

Posted Oct 16, 2003 4:10 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: yeh, old news by coriordan
Parent article: Two views of the Unix philosophy

Good review.

I don't think I'd buy either book. "The Practice of Programming" is not bad, on mildly similar lines. But really, in my humble experience, if you want to learn about how to design an app, look at the design & code of a similar existing app, and read the mailing list archives to find out what decisions were contraversial, or what they regretted, etc.

oh yeah, and about the article

Posted Oct 16, 2003 11:34 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] (1 responses)

"The Practice of Programming" is actually about programming, not about design like ESR's "The Art of Unix programming". ;-)

W.Richard Stevens wrote everything one might like to know about Unix programming, of course!

oh yeah, and about the article

Posted Oct 23, 2003 15:57 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

RIP, Mr. Stevens.

ESR is a lightning rod, and while it didn't surprise me that Ciaran had
the first comment here, I'm really a bit surprised that there weren't
more...

While Ciaran likes to dis ESR whenever possible -- and some of those
snipes are actually well taken -- I will in fact agree wholeheartedly
with his primary thesis on this point: yeah, with a little help from
Linux, rms *did* change the world.

I firmly believe that the reason for the mad proliferation of Linux
(sorry; luv ya rms, but I'm not gonna play the terminology game) is in
fact the fact that rms has provided the GPL for Linus to choose to
license his kernel under. And there seems no realistic doubt that Our
Plans For World Domination (a phrase I don't see *near* often enough
anymore -- are we too close to think it's funny now?) will succeed beyond
our wildest dreams.

The only prediction I *can't* make, with any reasonable facility, is when
Microsoft Linux will ship.

:-)