Got my copy of *The Art of Unix Programming* by ESR today. ¹ It is also available online. ² ISBN:0131429019.
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TAOUP is interesting read. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html is a rather balanced review.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
– AadityaSood 2004-05-24 19:31 UTC
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Thanks for that link. I guess I never did much Windows-specific programming either, even though my day-job uses only Windows machines. No COM objects, no Active-X, no Visual Basic, no Visual Studio... I guess with me being a Database person we get all these Database-specific tools like Developer 2000 by Oracle (which I never used), SQL Windows _ Centura by Gupta, and now a home-grown client_server application development framework that puts heavy emphasis on writing SQL statements... Lucky me, I guess. 😄 And I admit freely that I believe **programming for programmers is better**:
1. fun
2. quality
3. exploration
4. knowledge
And since Claudia started using my box, surfing the web with Firefox and reading mail with Gnus, burning CDs using a couple of shell scripts I wrote for her (cdrecord based)... I dunno... Things are looking brighter for the ’nix headz... ;)
– Alex Schroeder 2004-05-24 20:15 UTC
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Truly, ESR is a total nut when it comes to politics... ¹
– Alex Schroeder 2004-05-25 10:30 UTC