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'''''The Art of Unix Programming''''' by [[Eric S. Raymond]] is a book about the history and culture of [[Unix]] [[Computer programming|programming]] from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when it was published, covering both genetic derivations such as [[BSD]] and conceptual ones such as [[Linux]].

The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by contrasting it to other [[operating system]]s including desktop-oriented ones such as [[Microsoft Windows]] and the [[classic Mac OS]] to ones with research roots such as [[Extremely Reliable Operating System|EROS]] and [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]].
The book was published by Addison-Wesley, September 17, 2003, {{ISBN|0-13-142901-9}} and is also available online, under a [[Creative Commons]] license with additional clauses.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ |title= The Art of Unix Programming |quote= This book and its on-line version are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0 license, with the additional proviso that the right to publish it on paper for sale or other for-profit use is reserved to Pearson Education, Inc. }}</ref>

==Contributors==
The book contains many contributions, quotations and comments from UNIX gurus past and present. These include:

*[[Ken Arnold]] (author of [[curses (programming library)|curses]] and co-author of ''[[Rogue (computer game)|Rogue]]'')
*[[Steve Bellovin]]
*[[Stuart Feldman]]
*[[Jim Gettys]]
*[[Stephen C. Johnson]]
*[[Brian Kernighan]]
*[[David Korn (computer scientist)|David Korn]]
*[[Mike Lesk]]
*[[Doug McIlroy]]
*[[Marshall Kirk McKusick]]
*[[Keith Packard]]
*[[Henry Spencer]]
*[[Ken Thompson]]

==See also==
*[[Unix philosophy]]
*''[[The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age]]''

==References==
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== External links ==
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* Online book (HTML edition)
** {{official website|http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/}}
** [http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ The Art of Unix Programming] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317014053/http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ |date=2005-03-17 }} at FAQs

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