In this book, five years in the making, the author encapsulates three decades
of unwritten, hard-won software engineering wisdom. Raymond brings together
for the first time the philosophy, design patterns, tools, culture, and traditions that
make UNIX home to the world's best and most innovative software, and shows how
these are carried forward in Linux and today's open-source movement. Using examples
from leading open-source projects, he shows UNIX and Linux programmers how to apply this wisdom in building software that's more elegant, more portable, more reusable, and longer-lived.
