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Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

The hoc interpreter was created by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike and published in their 1984 book The UNIX Programming Environment. Their hoc project demonstrated the strategy of starting first with a ...

Back when I started writing code, everything was done in the command line. You configured systems with the command line, wrote scripts in vi and emacs and ed, building your own library of commands ...

Computer understands the language of 0's and 1's called binary language. In early days of computing, instruction are provided using binary language, which is difficult for all of us, to read and write ...

Researchers have pioneered a technique that can dramatically accelerate certain types of computer programs automatically, while ensuring program results remain accurate. Their system boosts the speeds ...

Another member of the Unix team, Rob Pike worked at Bell Labs from 1980 to 2002. Apart from his well- known contributions to Plan 9, the inferno operating systems and the Limbo programming language, ...

The Big Nerd Ranch, which teaches programmers in an environment that includes room and board in the class price, is offering a US$1,000 discount to attendees of two November training classes. “Cocoa I ...