in reply to Re^2: Who still uses the camel book?
in thread Who still uses the camel book?
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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