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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at?
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:27:49 -0500
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On 01/16/2014 04:50 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:18:08 -0500, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>
>> On 01/16/2014 03:39 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>>> - If you're writing C for Linux or another of the Unices, you may also
>>>     want a copy of "UNIX System Programming for System VR4" from
>>>     O'Reilly.
>>>     I've had my copy since the late '90s and its still a very relevant
>>>     reference in my library.
>> The Linux Programming Interface, Michael Kerrisk, No Starch Press.
>> <http://www.nostarch.com/tlpi>
>
> OK, I'll raise you one more: "The Practise of Programming" by Kernighan
> and Pike.
>
> This book's intended audience is C programmers, but it is also very
> relevant for programmers writing C++, and Java and, indeed, is useful for
> programmers writing almost any block structured language. It is a
> programming style manual that covers sensible naming conventions for
> data, functions/methods and objects, program layout and commenting for
> good readability and ways of structuring programs for performance and
> ease of debugging. Its the book I wish had been available when I was
> starting to program professionally and that would have made life much
> easier if it had been been read and understood by the designers and
> authors of innumerable programs I've had to debug or amend.
>
>
No oneupmanship intended.
I had a much later start; Code Complete, Steve McConnell.