Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty: a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. - Bertrand Russell

The UNIX Programming Environment

I found this dusty old book from my old library and decided to read it. Written by the fathers of UNIX, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike in 1984, most content is still relevant to this days and shows many of the design principles and motivations behind modern UNIX based systems.

Of course some content can be considered legacy today, as how to create a text parser using Yacc and Lex, or creating obscure filters with sed and awk.



Created on the 26th of March 2023. Last edition on 17/11/2024