Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous “expert” left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!

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    9 months ago

    Nice! I picked up a good classic myself at a thrift store a couple months ago.

    I like one of the first lines in the first chapter: “The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”

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        About 260 if you don’t count the function reference at the back. There sure wasn’t much to it back then. Compared to the monster that is C++. I can maybe see why Linus doesn’t like it and prefers C. There’s a hundred different ways to do one thing, and it could get out of hand, and there’s a lot of complex stuff in the libraries that you’re dependent on. For low-level programming it’s basically like “trust me, bro”.

        It’s great for me though that can’t program worth a shit and have all the algorithms ready to go.