Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Aaron Burrow
wizard book On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Dimitris Papastamos s...@2f30.org wrote: - KR - The practice of programming - The dragon book - The standard C library. P.J. Plauger - Lions book - The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach - The art of unix programming - Let's build a

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Lee Fallat
The UNIX Hater's Handbook. A great perspective on UNIX.

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Roger
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 02:37:58AM -0400, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote: Hi all, Good books and papers come up frequently in [dev] threads, many of which must be new to some readers. Would there be any value in adding a 'Books' section to suckless.org/rocks for less-sucking programming reading

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Martti Kühne
And from a time when unix was about to happen, or let's call it the mindset that made it happen, I'm really very fond of Chris Brooks' The Design Of Design. cheers! mar77i

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread pmarin
Project Oberon (New Edition 2013): http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/ The little schemer is a cute fun book which is more about recursion and abstraction than Lisp. Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Lee, Quoth Lee Fallat on Sat, Apr 25 2015 21:57 -0400: The UNIX Hater's Handbook. A great perspective on UNIX. In what way? I remember a chapter-length rant about rm(1) being broken because it actually removed things and some (accurate) complaints about X; otherwise, Dennis Ritchie's preface

[dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Hi all, Good books and papers come up frequently in [dev] threads, many of which must be new to some readers. Would there be any value in adding a 'Books' section to suckless.org/rocks for less-sucking programming reading material? My lazy searching for decent lists of programming books has

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread FRIGN
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 02:37:58 -0400 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe first.lord.of.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Wolfgang, if people mention books like The Unix Programming Environment at all, it is for historical interest. maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but The Unix Programming Environment is _the_

Re: [dev] books that rock / algorithms design scientific publications

2015-04-25 Thread Jakub Lach
Dnia 25 kwietnia 2015 8:37 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe first.lord.of.t...@gmail.com napisał(a): A short list of well-written books following the philosophy of simplicity would be a great antidote to current fashion. I'm currently searching for similar thing, though the further removed from

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Hi, maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but The Unix Programming Environment is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer. Even though it has aged over the years, it has aged well and most practices shown in the book are still valid today. Yeah, it is totally true. There are some points

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Roberto E. Vargas Caballero writes: Books that I have in my list of next readings: - The awk language - Software Tools in Pascal, Kernighan and Plauger (I think there is a version of this book in C, isn't it?) You should also include The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
You should also include The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan Plauger. My personal favorite computer-related book. Yeah, and the books of Stevens: - Advenced programming in the unix environment - Unix network programming Regards,

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread noname
http://doc.cat-v.org/

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 25 Apr 2015 at 01:25:50 PDT Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: Hi, maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but The Unix Programming Environment is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer. Even though it has aged over the years, it has aged well and most practices shown in the book

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
FRIGN, Quoth FRIGN on Sat, Apr 25 2015 09:30 +0200: if people mention books like The Unix Programming Environment at all, it is for historical interest. maybe I misunderstood this paragraph, but The Unix Programming Environment is _the_ book for every ongoing unix programmer. My point

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Roberto, Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero on Sat, Apr 25 2015 10:25 +0200: I had a list of these books, but I cannot find it. From my memory... Awesome list, thank you. -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe

Re: [dev] books that rock

2015-04-25 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
- KR - The practice of programming - The dragon book - The standard C library. P.J. Plauger - Lions book - The desing of the unix operating system. J. Bach - The art of unix programming - Let's build a compiler (this is a articles serie, but there is a compiler version) - Linkers and

Re: [dev] books that rock / algorithms design scientific publications

2015-04-25 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 25 Apr 2015 at 00:20:32 PDT Jakub Lach wrote: Dnia 25 kwietnia 2015 8:37 Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe first.lord.of.t...@gmail.com napisał(a): A short list of well-written books following the philosophy of simplicity would be a great antidote to current fashion. I'm currently searching