The UNIX Hater's Handbook

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Summary: Ravings about the system we love to hate
Review: Unix is one of those systems that you can only be for or against, Unix usersare normally against as this book perfectly shows. The anti foreword byDennis Ritchie shows the academic level at which the pro-con discussion normally takes place:

"<...>Your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations. Like excrement, it contains enough indigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some."

The book contains many literal transcripts from uunet news postings which use the same tone.

Many examples of Unix insanity are given, who didn't ever use rm * .o when actually rm *.o was meant, or who doesn't think that the sequence mv a -a; mv -a a should result in file a back where it was ?
Sometimes the complaints are unjust (occasionally footnoted with something along the lines of: well it is possible to do this, but not obvious), outdated or irrelevant, but most of it is very true.