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| subject = [[Computer programming]]
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| publisher = [[Addison–Wesley]]
| pub_date = 1999<ref name="TPOP @ Informit"/>
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'''''The Practice of Programming''''' ({{ISBN|0-201-61586-X}}) by [[Brian Kernighan|Brian W. Kernighan]] and [[Rob Pike]] is a 1999 book about [[computer programming]] and [[software engineering]], published by [[Addison-Wesley]].<ref name="TPOP @ Informit">{{cite book |title=TPOP @ Informit |date=4 February 1999 |publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series series. |isbn=978-0-201-61586-9 |url=http://www.informit.com/store/practice-of-programming-9780201615869 |access-date=6 December 2013}}</ref>

According to the preface, the book is about "topics like testing, [[debugging]], [[porting|portability]], performance, design alternatives, and style", which, according to the authors, "are not usually the focus of computer science or programming courses".<ref>{{cite web |title=From the Preface |url=http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/preface.html |website=Bell Labs: Brian Kernighan's Home Page |access-date=2020-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991115083551/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/preface.html |archive-date=15 November 1999 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It treats these topics in case studies, featuring implementations in several [[programming language]]s (mostly [[C (programming language)|C]], but also [[C++]], [[AWK]], [[Perl]], [[Tcl]] and [[Java (programming language)|Java]]).

''The Practice of Programming'' has been translated into twelve languages. [[Eric S. Raymond]], in ''[[The Art of Unix Programming]]'', calls it "recommended reading for all C programmers (indeed for all programmers in any language)".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Art of Unix Programming |first=Eric S. |last=Raymond |year=2003 |url=http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/pr01s01.html |publisher=Addison-Wesley}}</ref> A 2008 review on [[LWN.net]] found that ''TPOP'' "has aged well due to its focus on general principles" and that "beginners will benefit most but experienced developers will appreciate [...] the later chapters".<ref>{{cite web |website=LWN.net |title=Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: The Practice of Programming |year=2008 |first=Valerie |last=Henson |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/293037/}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/tpop.webpage/ Home page at Princeton]

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