The UNIX Hater's Handbook

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This book is basically the floor-sweepings from an very-early-90s postings to a listserv and a few newsgroups where people complained about anything that they got at a prompt, or as a prompt.
So: csh bugs? weird bits of XWindows internals? bugs in a late 80s implementations of "find" on SunOS? that one time that someone at Apple misconfigured sendmail? uuencode? Usenet? LaTeX? even the entire language of C++? It's all wadded together as "Unix", and thus is the subject of the book's snideness: "Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT!". "Snoozenet" (LOL THAT MEANS USENET!). "like, oh my god, checking for whether or not the name ended in '.c'? I think you know the answer."
The only real lesson of the book is: don't overwrite or permanently erase files without prompting. And that's why this is all taken care of by OSX's or Gnome's or KDE's file managers.
And you can get that lesson from the book you should be buying instead, Donald Norman's (The Design of Everyday Things) (or his other books). And if you are in a mood for filtering good ideas out of not-well-aging weirdness, consider Jef Raskin's (The Humane Interface).

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