The unix programming environment

Edition 2.2, August 2001

Mark Burgess

Centre of Science and Technology

Faculty of Engineering, Oslo College

If you are coming to unix for the first time, from a Windows or MacIntosh environment, be prepared for a rather different culture than the one you are used to. UNIX is not about `products' and off-the-shelf software, it is about open standards, free software and the ability to change just about everything.

• What you personally might perceive as user friendliness in other systems, others might perceive as annoying time wasting. UNIX offers you just about every level of friendliness and unfriendliness, if you choose your programs right. In this book, we take the programmer's point of view.
• UNIX is about functionality, not about simplicity. Be prepared for powerful, not necessarily `simple' solutions.

You should approach UNIX the way you should approach any new system: with an open mind. The journey begins...

 

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