Peter H. Salus
Author of A Quarter Century of UNIX
About the Author
Image credit: Peter Salus at IT-Højskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark year 2002.
Series
Works by Peter H. Salus
The Handbook of Programming Languages (HPL): Functional, Concurrent and Logic Programming Languages (1998) 35 copies
Studies Out in Left Field: Defamatory Essays Presented to James D. McCawley on the Occasion of His 33rd or 34th… (1992) 33 copies
Handbook of Programming Language (4 Volume Set : Object-Oriented Programming Languages, Imperative Programming… (1999) 7 copies
Associated Works
Papers in the history of linguistics proceedings of the third International Conference on the History of the Language… (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies
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To the initiated, a very funny set of essays which examine taboo phrases according using arcane generative grammars. To me, as a grad student, I took it as much a spoof on such grammars as on language analysis, but perhaps the contributors meant it seriously.
Delightful for even a non-linguist to read.
While not the slickest or even best-written book, A Quarter Century of UNIX is full of interesting historical detail, much of it in the words of the folks who cut the code. And, c'mon! Who can resist a book with dazzling black and white pictures of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie? [2007-01-13]
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It's a remarkable work, from beginning to end, and includes the *best* code comment ever in the front of the book.
/* You are not expected to understand this */
from the Sixth Edition of UNIX, copyright (then) by Western Electric Co.
The comment line is 2238; the lines it refers to are 2240-2243. If you own a copy of Lion's Commentary, those lines are on Sheet 22. There are photographs in the center of the book, and they're hard to look at. I imagine as more of them leave us, it will only be harder.
RIP, Evi.… (more)