Unix koans

jrockway wrote: post #5

The images-of-text make the website partially unreadable when using a non-graphical browser. I suppose I should take that to mean something deep.

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Re: Unix koans

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Post by aaronem » Sun, Feb 23, 2014, 5:08 AM UTC

ESR koans, more like. Has the man ever written anything which lacked barely veiled subtext of "Look how smart I am!" IMHO The Art of Unix Programming has as little of that as anything of his that I've read, but only when he's relating facts; in any place where there's scope for opinion, his high opinion of himself shines forth.

Re: Unix koans

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Post by patrickmay » Sun, Feb 23, 2014, 5:18 AM UTC

jumpwah wrote: post #2

Some people seem to forget why we still use cli, from discourses on the graphical user interface, they think that it's not 'modern'...

In the beginning was the command line: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

Re: Unix koans

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Post by WizzleKake » Sun, Feb 23, 2014, 5:30 AM UTC

If you like this, you might like the Tao of Programming: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

Re: Unix koans

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Post by fromdoon » Sun, Feb 23, 2014, 5:42 AM UTC

aaronem wrote: post #7

ESR koans, more like. Has the man ever written anything which lacked barely veiled subtext of "Look how smart I am!" IMHO The Art of Unix Programming has as little of that as anything of his that I've read, but only when he's relating facts; in any place where there's scope for opinion, his high opinion of himself shines forth.

I had read all these, before I got to know about ESR.

I was like, Wow!!, and it never ever came to my mind who wrote this or why. It was just some cool stuff and as a linux newbie I really liked these micro-stories or unix zen fables.

It happens with me as well that when I read something by an author for whom I hold some kind of prejudice, my reading is maligned a bit and I wish I could see what the author had to share from a completely neutral point of view, because then in that case, what I take away from my reading would be closer to what it had meant to be for me.