Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

In comp.unix.programmer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

No, you do not need your particular favourite out of the thousand and
one Linux programming books in order to program for Linux.  You do not
need /any/ book in order to write useful and successful code for Linux.
Of course you need /some/ reference - and in the days before the
internet was so easily available and so full of information, I went
through a lot of programming books.  Some were good, some less so, and
some have become famous.  But none of them were /necessary/ in any way.

Well, I am a quite bad programmer but I am interested enough in the
Linux/UNIX workings so that reading the newest APUE and The Linux
Programming Interface did not feel painful or unnecessary at all. On
the contrary, it was a great pleasure to examine what kind of
programming facilities my favourite OS offers.

Having these two books, or just one of them, is a great way to educate
oneself about Linux/UNIX. I see that The Linux Programming Interface
is available online as a free PDF, but I am not sure whether it is
a pirated version.

There is no better way to learn Linux/UNIX workings than these two
books. Period.

br,
KK