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Portable C and Unix System Programming (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series) Paperback – January, 1987

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Product Details

  • Series: Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series
  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr (January 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0136864945
  • ISBN-13: 978-0136864943
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.5 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,871,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Somewhat dated now, but still very worthy ideas.
By Richard P Vireday on March 13, 2001
Format: Paperback
First off, the composite authors name is Lapin, not Laping.
I used this book back around 1990 to develop a large software suite. The first 5 chapters are an excellent intro to portable C coding. We used the beginning chapters to design and develop our common platform headers, libraries and Make system. We did not take their examples unchanged, but used them as starting points for a our needs, which was a somewhat more comprehensive system. My team gives the book credit for helping us get us some of our 10x improvements. Still have not seen the likes of this book even today, in terms of the quality of data to use.
The last half of the book is a summary of different API calls and /bin functions available on different Unixes of the day. Interesting now, from a historical perspective.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This book should be far better known
By beatrice krash on January 24, 2003
Format: Paperback
In addition to being everything the previous reviewer said it was, its true author is Eric S. Raymond, rather better known in the community now than he was then. ("Lapin" is French for "rabbit", as in Rabbit Software, the publishers.) So it should really be filed along with "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "The New Hacker's Dictionary".
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Clarification on authorship
By Smoot on February 16, 2005
Format: Paperback
Cowan's only half-right. The "E" in "J.E. Lapin" is for "Eric" (as in "Eric Raymond"). The "J" is for "Jon" (as in

"Jon Tulk"). The book was actually a team effort undertaken by several software engineers working at Rabbit Software in the 80s.
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