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Data File Metaformats

Unix has evolved or adopted metaformats suitable for a wide range of applications. It is good practice to use one of these (rather than an idiosyncratic custom format) wherever possible. The benefits begin with the amount of custom parsing and generation

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A Few More Lessons from Fetchmail

" When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend."

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LJ 73: Why Python?

Coolest things of python: hacking for more than an hour on something, then running it the first time, and have it working! Second best: being able to read it again long after writing it.

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The Art of Unix Programming

ESR, Unix programming, opensource book

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