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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Who will benefit from this book | |
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| Chapter overviews | |
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| Introduction to The Unix Philosophy | |
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| The Unix Philosophy: A Cast of Thousands | |
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| The Not invented here syndrome | |
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| Developing Unix | |
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| Linux: A cast of one plus one million | |
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| The Unix philosophy in a nutshell | |
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| One Small Step for Humankind | |
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| Tenet 1: Small is beautiful | |
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| Software engineering made easy | |
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| Looking at a bug | |
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| Tenet 2: Make each program do one thing well | |
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| Rapid Prototyping for Fun and Profit | |
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| Knowledge and the learning curve | |
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| Tenet 3: Build a prototype as soon as possible | |
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| The Three Systems of Man | |
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| The First System of man | |
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| The Second System of man | |
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| The Third System of man | |
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| Linux is both a Third System and a Second System | |
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| Building the Third System | |
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| The Portability Priority | |
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| Tenet 4: Choose portability over efficiency | |
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| Tenet 5: Store data in flat text files | |
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| Now That's Leverage! | |
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| Tenet 6: Use software leverage to your advantage | |
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| Tenet 7: Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability | |
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| The Perils of Interactive Programs | |
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| Tenet 8: Avoid captive user interfaces | |
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| Tenet 9: Make every program a filter | |
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| The Linux environment: Using programs as filters | |
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| More Unix Philosophy: Ten Lesser Tenets | |
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| Allow the user to tailor the environment | |
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| Make operating system kernels small and lightweight | |
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| Use lowercase and keep it short | |
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| Save trees | |
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| Silence is golden | |
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| Think parallel | |
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| The sum of the parts is greater than the whole | |
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| Look for the 90-percent solution | |
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| Worse is better | |
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| Think hierarchically | |
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| Making Unix Do One Thing Well | |
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| The Unix philosophy: Putting it all together | |
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| Unix and Other Operating System Philosophies | |
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| The Atari Home Computer: Human engineering as art | |
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| MS-DOS: Over seventy million users can't be wrong | |
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| VMS: The antithesis of UNIX? | |
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| Through the Glass Darkly: Linux vs. Windows | |
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| It's the content, stupid! | |
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| A Cathedral? How Bizarre! | |
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| Brave New (Unix) World | |
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| Java | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Extreme Programming | |
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| Refactoring | |
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| The Apache Jakarta Project | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Wireless Communications | |
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| Web Services | |
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| Artificial Intelligence | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Index | |