Software Tools
Kernighan & Plauger
If you ever write more than 100 lines of any language then you must
read this book. 'Software Tools' will introduce and teach the
principles of good software design to the total layman.
In 'Software
Tools' the examples are in 'Ratfor' a variety of Fortran that is
easily read. Rules such as "getting it working then get it fast" and
"do just one thing, do it well" seem to seep in through your pores
as you work through this book. I drag it off the shelf and rewrite
a few examples after I get "Hello World" working any time I learn
a new language. Oh, and a lot of the tools we bless every day in
the Linux world were born from ideas started in this book.
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