Portable C and Unix System Programming (Prentice-hall Signal Processing Series)

By Prog C and J. E. Lapin

This practical guide contains a detailed set of C standards and UNIX system comparisons for the construction of highly portable software. Professionals will learn the underlying causes of portability... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136864945
• ISBN13: 9780136864943
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.5" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Clarification on authorship

Cowan's only half-right. The "E" in "J.E. Lapin" is for "Eric" (as in "Eric Raymond"). The "J" is for "Jon" (as in "Jon Tulk"). The book was actually a team effort undertaken by several software engineers working at Rabbit Software in the 80s.

Somewhat dated now, but still very worthy ideas.

First off, the composite authors name is Lapin, not Laping.I used this book back around 1990 to develop a large software suite. The first 5 chapters are an excellent intro to portable C coding. We used the beginning chapters to design and develop our common platform headers, libraries and Make system. We did not take their examples unchanged, but used them as starting points for a our needs, which was a somewhat more comprehensive system. My team gives the book credit for helping us get us some of our 10x improvements. Still have not seen the likes of this book even today, in terms of the quality of data to use.The last half of the book is a summary of different API calls and /bin functions available on different Unixes of the day. Interesting now, from a historical perspective.