It's a good book to read, but not in anyway essential or required reading and its badly mis-titled as it contains very little discussion on actual UNIX programming.
The main issue I had with the book was that ESR seem to conveniently decided that the only post 1995 UNIX worth talking about is Linux, largely ignoring the *BSDs and OS Xs of the world. The later sections on licences seems out of place and drift a little bit too far into Open Source dogma for my tastes.
In summary its a bit of a curates egg as it seems to be a bunch of separate essay's that ESR has tried to jam together under a single topic that don't quite fit together.
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It's a good book to read, but not in anyway essential or required reading and its badly mis-titled as it contains very little discussion on actual UNIX programming.
The main issue I had with the book was that ESR seem to conveniently decided that the only post 1995 UNIX worth talking about is Linux, largely ignoring the *BSDs and OS Xs of the world. The later sections on licences seems out of place and drift a little bit too far into Open Source dogma for my tastes.
In summary its a bit of a curates egg as it seems to be a bunch of separate essay's that ESR has tried to jam together under a single topic that don't quite fit together.
...its badly mis-titled as it contains very little discussion on actual UNIX programming.
A minor edit would fix it: The Art around Unix Programming