The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
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| Author | Simson Garfinkel Daniel Weise Steven Strassmann |
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| Publisher | IDG Books |
| Released | 1994 |
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise and Steven Strassmann and published in 1994. The book is available for free in electronic format as of March 2007.
The book concerns the frustrations of users to the Unix operating system. Many users had come from systems that they felt were far more sophisticated in computer science terms, and were tremendously frustrated by the worse is better design philosophy that they felt Unix and much of its software encapsulated.
This book was printed as a trade paperback. Its front cover was designed to be similar to The Scream. An air sickness bag, printed with the phrase "UNIX barf bag", was inserted into the inside back cover of every copy, by the publisher.
[edit] Contents
The book includes an "Anti-Foreword" by Dennis Ritchie, which denigrates the book's concept.
A chapter on the X Window System is written by Don Hopkins.
Richard Gabriel's essay on the design differences between scholars at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, titled "Worse is Better", is included in an appendix.
[edit] References
- The UNIX-HATERS Handbook. ISBN 1-56884-203-1.
[edit] External links
- Downloadable PDF version of the book
- Background information from Daniel Weise
- A review by Andrew Kuchling on linuxgazette.net
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