Comments on: Light reading for the holidays https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/11/21/light-reading-for-the-holidays/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:29:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/11/21/light-reading-for-the-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-3508 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:29:32 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2006/11/21/1984.html#comment-3508 I think this might’ve subconsciously prodded me to go out and blow some money…

I returned with the K&R book (ANSIfied edition), and also stumbled across
Marc J. Rochkind’s _Advanced UNIX Programming, 2nd Edition._ I don’t know how well-loved the latter is or isn’t, but it seems to cover what many others ‘just know’ about userland, and from a quick flip-through, appears organized to be read enjoyably-enough from cover to cover, rather than suffering the ‘loose collection of manpages’ or ‘walkthrough of overly-specialized projects meant to prove why [subject of book] is gee-whiz’ extremes I keep seeing.

On that note, is the original _Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software_ worthwhile for someone who needs to see how to structure OOPly things whatsoever, or is there a less biblical alternative?

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