Kernighan is also the "K" in "K&R C," the foundational 1978 book The C Programming Language he cowrote with Dennis Ritchie that sticks with programmers, mentally and in dog-eared paper form.C's ...

In this book excerpt from The Art of UNIX Programming, author Eric S. Raymond discusses the philosophy of Unix, what it got right, and what it got wrong.

Wikipedia on Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, and as co-author of the definitive book on C, The C ...

Sysinternals founder Mark Russinovich's after-dinner photo just flipped the nerd world into Kardashian-like levels of ...

Nothing typifies this most uncommon and essential of genres better than Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, written by W. Richard Ste. On my desk, ...

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”) ...

Big Nerd Ranch has released “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a book by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass that was previously only available only as a student guide for the US$3,500 Big ...

A standard Unix programming interface from The Open Group, which governs compliance. Formerly known as Spec 1170, and containing more than 1,100 API calls, products branded with the UNIX 95, UNIX ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: The author of this book addresses the fundamentals of UNIX system, commands, shell scripts, internals, sockets and device drivers focuses on the important elements of maintaining ...

Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition Marc J. Rochkind. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0131411543. $44.99. Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was ...