Re^2: Who still uses the camel book?

I oddly enough remember vrk's node from way back when; my internet access was somewhat spotty in those days, and I was running freebsd on a toshiba libretto as my main machine, and honest to goodness reference books were incredibly useful. But it's been at least a decade since I've used any of those books for anything other than decorations.

But I take your point about the slim books with limited scope. I have purchased a number of those in recent years to learn a new language feature or something like that. But I also don't tend to hang on to those in the same way that I did the camel, the K&R, or Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.

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Re^3: Who still uses the camel book? by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2023 at 11:13 UTC
I also don't tend to hang on to those in the same way that I did the camel, the K&R, or Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment Thanks for reminding me of the classic 1992 edition of Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, by the legendary W Richard Stevens (William Richard (Rich) Stevens, February 5, 1951-September 1, 1999). I really enjoyed reading that superb book from cover to cover, scribbling notes on almost every page. As you might expect, I was deeply saddened to learn of the author's unexpected death in 1999, at the age of 48, especially given the cause of death has still not been disclosed (the second and third editions of Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment were published in 2005 and 2013 with a co-author, Stephen A. Rago). See also References on running External Processes on Unix and Windows, which mentions the Windows equivalents of Stevens' classic Unix book. All three of these OS level tomes had hard covers IIRC.	[reply]

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Re^3: Who still uses the camel book?
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2023 at 11:13 UTC

I also don't tend to hang on to those in the same way that I did the camel, the K&R, or Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

Thanks for reminding me of the classic 1992 edition of Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, by the legendary W Richard Stevens (William Richard (Rich) Stevens, February 5, 1951-September 1, 1999).

I really enjoyed reading that superb book from cover to cover, scribbling notes on almost every page. As you might expect, I was deeply saddened to learn of the author's unexpected death in 1999, at the age of 48, especially given the cause of death has still not been disclosed (the second and third editions of Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment were published in 2005 and 2013 with a co-author, Stephen A. Rago).

See also References on running External Processes on Unix and Windows, which mentions the Windows equivalents of Stevens' classic Unix book. All three of these OS level tomes had hard covers IIRC.

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