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Composition

An annotated collection of 1 books on composition, spanning 1984. Featuring works by Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

The UNIX Programming Environment

Brian W. Kernighan & Rob Pike, 1984 · Prentice Hall

The Unix philosophy in one volume. Kernighan and Pike teach a way of thinking, not a tool: build small programs that do one thing well, and combine them through plain text. The whole discipline of modular systems — APIs,…