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Unix Programming - What Unix Gets Right - The Lessons of Unix Can Be Applied Elsewhere
The Lessons of Unix Can Be Applied Elsewhere
Unix programmers have accumulated decades of experience
while pioneering operating-system features we now take for granted.
Even non-Unix programmers can benefit from studying that Unix
experience. Because Unix makes it relatively easy to apply good design
principles and development methods, it is an excellent place to
learn them.
Other operating systems generally make good practice rather
more difficult, but even so some of the Unix culture's lessons can
transfer. Much Unix code (including all its filters, its major
scripting languages, and many of its code generators) will
port directly to any operating system supporting ANSI
C (for the
excellent reason that C itself was a Unix invention and the
ANSI C library embodies a substantial chunk of Unix's
services!).
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