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Brian W. Kernighan
Birth date: January 01, 1942
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
//Cenesis, chapter 1#includeint main(){puts("In the beginning, when Ritchie created the Unix and the C");puts("and the UNIX was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters");puts("Then Riche said: hello, world, and there was code");puts("Riche saw t...
ybrikman
ybrikman rated it 11 years ago
A mixed bag, but overall, worth reading. Pros: I think programmers do not spend enough time studying the code of others, so books like this are an important step in encouraging the study of this craft. Each chapter of the book is written by a different (often famous) programmer, uses a different lan...
Joan3000
Joan3000 rated it 12 years ago
This book was a good reference when I was looking things up about some libraries and their functions. It didn't solve all my problems, but it's very easy to read, almost like a literary book. All the basics are there and they are well explained, I just had some problems when I had a few more specifi...
Deryck's book blog
Deryck's book blog rated it 16 years ago
There are some great essays here and some long and winding, less interesting, essays here. I read them out of order and sporadically and enjoyed the book, but there was a part of me that was disappointed. Perhaps there's no way to avoid too high of expectations with a title like this. But overall...
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Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 26 years ago
If you're a geek, you have to prostrate yourself in the direction of Bell Labs whenever this book is mentioned. I'm not really a geek, so it's optional. Well, perhaps I'd better do it anyway. Just in case.
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