With the same insight and authority that made their book The Unix Programming Environment a
classic Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike have written The Practice of Programming to help make
individual programmers more effective and productive. This book is full of practical advice and
real-world examples in C C++ Java and a variety of special-purpose languages. Kernighan and
Pike have distilled years of experience writing programs teaching and working with other
programmers to create this book. Anyone who writes software will profit from its principles and
guidance.
