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| Preface | |
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| Context | |
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| Philosophy: Philosophy Matters | |
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| Culture? What Culture? | |
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| The Durability of Unix | |
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| The Case against Learning Unix Culture | |
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| What Unix Gets Wrong | |
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| What Unix Gets Right | |
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| Basics of the Unix Philosophy | |
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| The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson | |
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| Applying the Unix Philosophy | |
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| Attitude Matters Too | |
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| History: A Tale of Two Cultures | |
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| Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 | |
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| Origins and History of the Hackers, 1961-1995 | |
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| The Open-Source Movement: 1998 and Onward | |
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| The Lessons of Unix History | |
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| Contrasts: Comparing the Unix Philosophy with Others | |
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| The Elements of Operating-System Style | |
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| Operating-System Comparisons | |
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| What Goes Around, Comes Around | |
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| Design | |
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| Modularity: Keeping It Clean, Keeping It Simple | |
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| Encapsulation and Optimal Module Size | |
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| Compactness and Orthogonality | |
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| Software Is a Many-Layered Thing | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Unix and Object-Oriented Languages | |
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| Coding for Modularity | |
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| Textuality: Good Protocols Make Good Practice | |
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| The Importance of Being Textual | |
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| Data File Metaformats | |
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| Application Protocol Design | |
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| Application Protocol Metaformats | |
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| Transparency: Let There Be Light | |
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| Studying Cases | |
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| Designing for Transparency and Discoverability | |
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| Designing for Maintainability | |
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| Multiprogramming: Separating Processes to Separate Function | |
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| Separating Complexity Control from Performance Tuning | |
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| Taxonomy of Unix IPC Methods | |
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| Problems and Methods to Avoid | |
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| Process Partitioning at the Design Level | |
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| Minilanguages: Finding a Notation That Sings | |
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| Understanding the Taxonomy of Languages | |
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| Applying Minilanguages | |
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| Designing Minilanguages | |
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| Generation: Pushing the Specification Level Upwards | |
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| Data-Driven Programming | |
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| Ad-hoc Code Generation | |
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| Configuration: Starting on the Right Foot | |
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| What Should Be Configurable? | |
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| Where Configurations Live | |
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| Run-Control Files | |
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| Environment Variables | |
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| Command-Line Options | |
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| How to Choose among the Methods | |
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| On Breaking These Rules | |
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| Interfaces: User-Interface Design Patterns in the Unix Environment | |
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| Applying the Rule of Least Surprise | |
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| History of Interface Design on Unix | |
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| Evaluating Interface Designs | |
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| Tradeoffs between CLI and Visual Interfaces | |
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| Transparency, Expressiveness, and Configurability | |
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| Unix Interface Design Patterns | |
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| Applying Unix Interface-Design Patterns | |
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| The Web Browser as a Universal Front End | |
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| Silence Is Golden | |
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| Optimization | |
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| Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! | |
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| Measure before Optimizing | |
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| Nonlocality Considered Harmful | |
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| Throughput vs. Latency | |
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| Complexity: As Simple As Possible, but No Simpler | |
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| Speaking of Complexity | |
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| A Tale of Five Editors | |
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| The Right Size for an Editor | |
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| The Right Size of Software | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Languages: To C or Not To C? | |
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| Unix's Cornucopia of Languages | |
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| Why Not C? | |
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| Interpreted Languages and Mixed Strategies | |
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| Language Evaluations | |
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| Trends for the Future | |
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| Choosing an X Toolkit | |
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| Tools: The Tactics of Development | |
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| A Developer-Friendly Operating System | |
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| Choosing an Editor | |
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| Special-Purpose Code Generators | |
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| make: Automating Your Recipes | |
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| Version-Control Systems | |
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| Runtime Debugging | |
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| Profiling | |
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| Combining Tools with Emacs | |
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| Reuse: On Not Reinventing the Wheel | |
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| The Tale of J. Random Newbie | |
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| Transparency as the Key to Reuse | |
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| From Reuse to Open Source | |
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| The Best Things in Life Are Open | |
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| Where to Look? | |
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| Issues in Using Open-Source Software | |
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| Licensing Issues | |
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| Community | |
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| Portability: Software Portability and Keeping Up Standards | |
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| Evolution of C | |
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| Unix Standards | |
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| IETF and the RFC Standards Process | |
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| Specifications as DNA, Code as RNA | |
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| Programming for Portability | |
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| Internationalization | |
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| Portability, Open Standards, and Open Source | |
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| Documentation: Explaining Your Code to a Web-Centric World | |
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| Documentation Concepts | |
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| The Unix Style | |
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| The Zoo of Unix Documentation Formats | |
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| The Present Chaos and a Possible Way Out | |
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| DocBook | |
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| Best Practices for Writing Unix Documentation | |
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| Open Source: Programming in the New Unix Community | |
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| Unix and Open Source | |
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| Best Practices for Working with Open-Source Developers | |
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| The Logic of Licenses: How to Pick One | |
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| Why You Should Use a Standard License | |
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| Varieties of Open-Source Licensing | |
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| Futures: Dangers and Opportunities | |
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| Essence and Accident in Unix Tradition | |
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| Plan 9: The Way the Future Was | |
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| Problems in the Design of Unix | |
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| Problems in the Environment of Unix | |
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| Problems in the Culture of Unix | |
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| Reasons to Believe | |
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| Glossary of Abbreviations | |
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| References | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Rootless Root: The Unix Koans of Master Foo | |
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| Index | |