Reviews for Spotlight on literature

The average rating for Spotlight on literature based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-23 00:00:00 Noemi Paciorek You can make poetry out of anything. This book is a stunning example.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-09 00:00:00 Andre Beier First of all, the book is incredibly old. If you are a software developer in this world, you will most likely never want to hold books related to your craft as old as this.However, UNIX is a timeless beauty. This book show exactly why. Crunching through the first couple of sections of The UNIX Programming Environment completely refreshed my dusty knowledge on the UNIX system. Apart from receiving practical knowledge with many exercises to hone the newly attained knowledge, the book provide it's reader with deep insight on the theoretical, under-the-surface part of the UNIX system. Sadly, the book is very old indeed, after setting us up with the filters and programming the environment, I have felt, that the coming sections will not be very interesting or up to date, and so they weren't. My suggestion to new readers is to keep away from the last 2 sections of the book, describing the C programming environment (unless the reader is interested in how compilers were written in the old times), and the parts about documentation, since we have way better tools for those in modern environments.