''The Art of Unix Programming'' by

Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book ''The Cathedral and the Bazaar''. He wrote a guidebook for the ...

is a book about the history and culture of

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programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when it was published, covering both genetic derivations such as BSD and conceptual ones such as

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. The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by contrasting it to other

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s including desktop-oriented ones such as

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and the

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to ones with research roots such as EROS and Plan 9 from Bell Labs. The book was published by Addison-Wesley, September 17, 2003, and is also available online, under a

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license with additional clauses.

Contributors

The book contains many contributions, quotations and comments from UNIX gurus past and present. These include: * Ken Arnold (author of curses and co-author of ''

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'') * Steve Bellovin * Stuart Feldman * Jim Gettys * Stephen C. Johnson * Brian Kernighan * David Korn * Mike Lesk * Doug McIlroy *

Marshall Kirk McKusick Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to ...

Keith Packard Keith Packard (born April 16, 1963) is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System. Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the l ...

Henry Spencer Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote "regex", a widely used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also wrote ''The Ten Commandments for C P ...

* Ken Thompson

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* Online book (HTML edition) ** *
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