Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is highly regarded as solid reference on the UNIX environment. InfoQ speaks with coauthor Stephen Rago about this latest edition.

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures.

The authors explain the essentials of UNIX programming, concentrating on communication, concurrency and multithreading techniques, and why, when and how to use them in a tutorial manner. They provide ...

Thus, when Bell Labs purchased a PDP-11 for the department in 1971, Thompson decided it was time to rewrite Unix in a high-level programming language, as he told Brian Kernighan on stage at VCF 2019.

A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

The Unix operating system has been around for decades, and it and its lookalikes (mainly Linux) are a critical part of the computing world. Apple’s operating system, macOS, is Unix-based, as … ...

Dennis Ritchie is being remembered today as a pioneering computer scientist, the " father of [the] C programming language," co-creator of the Unix operating system and "a 'titan' of the [computer ...

Our latest deep dive crunches the numbers from 2016 to 2024, revealing fascinating insights into the popularity of programming languages and how emerging trends and industry shifts have influenced ...

These arrays employ numeric values — 1, 2, 3 and so on — as their indices. Since most scripting and programming languages start indexed arrays with element 0, we have done so in the examples ...

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system, has died aged 70. While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely ...

He developed the influential Korn shell, essentially a programming language to direct Unix operations, now available as open-source software.