UNIX: A History and a Memoir

UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. Brian wrote The C Programming Language (the book), along with many other great books. He worked at Bell Labs during the time of Unix and it's a casual, whimsical telling of some of the history there.

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Kernighan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" is a fun read.

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Recently someone on HN recommended Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. I'm almost finished, and it's been a wonderful read. I love reading about the development of early programming languages and computing environments, but I was surprised to find how helpful it is for deepening my understanding of things I use every day. It's amazing to me that tools like grep, which I use without a second thought, were written in the 1960s and 1970s and the code behind them hasn't been changed all that much. https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d... (https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552/)