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* Deals with powerful concepts in a simple way * Highlights important characteristics of Operating systems and other abstract entities in a new way * Explores the tenets of the UNIX operating system philosophy
Unlike so many books that focus on how to use UNIX, The UNIX Philosophy concentrates on answering the questions: `Why use UNIX in the first place?'. Readers will discover the rationale and reasons for such concepts as file system organization, user interface and other system characteristics. In an informative, non-technical fashion, The UNIX Philosophy explores the general principles for applying the UNIX philosophy to software development. This book describes complex software design principles and addresses the importance of small programs, code and data portability, early prototyping, and open user interfaces. The UNIX Philosophy is a book to be read before tackling the highly technical texts on UNIX internals and programming. Written for both the computer layperson and the experienced programmer, this book explores the tenets of the UNIX operating system in detail, dealing with powerful concepts in a comprehensive, straightforward manner.
- Sales Rank: #16981350 in Books
- Published on: 1999-12
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
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'It's a pleasant read-it's short and non-technical, focussing on ideology.' - Mactech
From the Publisher
Written for both the computer layperson and the experienced programmer, this book explores the tenets of the UNIX operating system in detail, dealing with powerful concepts in a comprehensive, straightforward manner.
About the Author
Mike Gancarz is an applications and programming consultant in Atlanta, Georgia. Using Linux, Unix, and Java tools, his team develops award-winning imaging solutions for the financial services industry. An expert in Unix application design, Mike has been an advocate of the Unix approach for more than twenty years. As a member of the team that gave birth to the X Window System, he pioneered usability concepts still found in modern window managers running on Linux today. While working at Digital Equipment Corporation's Unix Engineering Group in Nashua, New Hampshire, Mike led the port of the Unix commands and utilities to the 64-bit Alpha processor. His first book, The Unix Philosophy (Digital Press, 1995), has sold over 15,000 copies worldwide.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
A great book for everyone from beginners to 25-year veterans
By Patrick G Salsbury
When I first ran across this book, I thought it looked interesting, but I had a bunch of other books, so I put it aside. Weeks later, back in the bookstore, I noticed it was gone, and was mad at myself for not getting it. Weeks after that, I refound it, and while thrilled, once again rationalized myself into not buying it.
I repeated this cycle of frustration/elation every few weeks over the next few months, as I lost and then re-found the book when they rearranged the shelves. After about 3 or 4 iterations, I finally bought it out of frustration. :-)
To my surprise, it didn't get lost in the piles of "to read" books. It was a fairly quick (and excellent) read. I have recommended it dozens of times to friends and co-workers. From those who are literally just starting out in Unix, to those who have been Unix system administrators for 15-20 years.
Gancarz writes on a multitude of levels, and his style translates well no matter where you are on the Unix spectrum of experience. For people who are just beginning, he says "Ok, so you're a newbie... Here's how we all think, and how we all code. If you understand our frame of reference, all of this will make much more sense."
For those who are seasoned, he says "Ok, so you're a hot-shot veteran with 20 years of coding and sysadmin under your belt... Here are some reminders and pointers on how we all think, and how we all code. If you make sure to follow the same basic tenets, you can be assured that your code will interoperate with everyone else's, and will withstand the test of time."
This is not a book about how to code. This is a book about *how to think* about coding, and operating system design in general. He talks a lot about the portability of data over systems and over time, and how good programs should work well *with each other*, rather than being designed to work with a human. (Compare the user interface of 'grep' to that of Microsoft PowerPoint. One is designed to interface well with thousands of programs, and one is designed to interface well with thousands of humans, but only a few programs. You can't script PowerPoint. You can't include it inside your own programs. You can't call it up from a cron job at 3am to process data for you. It's designed under a different philosophy.)
Just Chapter 4, "The Portability Priority", is worth the price of the book, alone. It succinctly explains why you should choose data portability over efficiency and speed, and also why you shouldn't bother going back to rewrite your old scripts in C or Assembly to eke out that last smidge of speed. (The new computers coming out next year/month/week are going to be 10/100/1000x faster, and so will your code!) And he sings the praises of flat ASCII files for data stores that can be edited on any old text editors, read by all sorts of programs and different operating systems, etc.
By contrast, MS PowerPoint doesn't even interoperate well with other versions of *itself* from past years, and will almost certainly not be able to read files generated with the version that comes out 3-5 years from now.
Two thumbs up. This book is fantastic. And actually, it's been just over 2 years for me, so I think I'm about due for a re-read... :-)
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
If you have used or ever plan to use Unix, read this book.
By twig@advancenet.net
I've used Unix (and variants thereof) for seven years. I've read hundreds of books about Unix, from systems design to advanced X11 programming. This book provides the fundamentals to understanding Unix on all levels.
The Unix Philosophy has made me appreciate Unix like never before; it's totally changed my ideas about programming, program interoperability, and human-computer interaction. You will want to read this book from cover to cover over and over. You'll find yourself using this book as a reference, even though it's not one. The Unix Philosophy is well written, interesting, and insightful.
Read this book. :)
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Every SW-designer should read this book every second year
By Tom O Bjorkholm
This is a wonderful little book that every software designer should ready every second year. The book stresses the issues that we know, but all too often forget: small is beautiful, every program should do one thing well, use leverage, build prototypes, ...
The book also has the classical and wonderful story about the three systems of man. The first system is build by man, he has no time to do it "right". It is a "lean, mean computing machine". The success of the first system leads to the second. The second system is built by experts, the design is by a committee, and the result is a fat and slow system. The third system is built by people who have bean "burned" by the second system. Read the complete great story in the book.
For a user of UNIX or a designer of programs in the UNIX environment the book explains the UNIX design philosophy. This is what could be expected. However, software designers of all systems will benefit from reading the book. The UNIX philosophy is applicable and beneficiary to all software systems, regardless of the operating system used.
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