This is a book about Unix programming, but in it we’re going to toss around the words “culture,” “art,” and “philosophy” a lot. If you are not a programmer, or you are a programmer who has had little ...

Eric S. Raymond is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the open-source movement. In 1997, Eric published a technical paper called "The ...

下面的文字出自《The Art of Unix Programming》（Unix编程艺术）。令今天我们所有人所反思。 在Unix历史中，最大的规律就是： （看看《谁写了Linux》你就会知道这一规律） 距开源越近就越繁荣。任何将Unix专有化的企图，只能陷入停滞和衰败。 回顾过去，我们早该 ...

My discussion of software surprises on Saturday reminded me about the Law or Principle of Least Astonishment, also called the Law or Rule of Least Surprise. This certainly goes back to the early days ...

Reprogramming your personal workflow with a productivity system is a lot like programming computer software: given a stream of incoming information and tasks, you set up holding spaces and logical ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...