THE UNIX HATERS HANDBOOK, Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, & Steven Strassman IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-203-1, $16.95
Lord knows it's easy to whine and complain about anything these days. It must also be easy to get silly junk published, too. All you need to do is what these ``authors'' have: Pull together a collection of messages from an Internet mail server dedicated to complaints about Unix, thread other people's diatribes with a few comments and some cute but unrelated art, add a gimmick (a customized motion-sickness bag), and put the sorry mess on the shelves of bookstores. The Anti-Foreword by Dennis Ritchie, who, along with Ken Thompson, created Unix at Bell Labs some 25 years ago, suggests that if you have a problem with Unix, there is no problem--build your own version, as the Free Software Found
ation has done. Unfortunately the ``Unix barf bag'' is too small to contain the book that it comes with.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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