Why don't the other books on OSX cover topics like sockets, and pipes? Well because its all been done before. Did Apple add new functionality to the sockets API? I dont think so. Its pointless.
Larry Wall loves to dismiss awk, and emphasize how brillant he thinks he is, but the fact is he should bow down to awk. Oh, so he ran into a stumbling block with awk and wet his pants and so decided to build a better scripting language. So what. Do you know anyone who can sit through the Camel book? huh? No. Someone said it was a great example of technical writing. There is so much in that book, yet its missing almost everything. Thats where all the other gigantic Perl books come from. If he knew how to write he could have fitted all the info into one book. But instead, you get him blabbing about how he is a hacker and this and that. BOW!
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Why don't the other books on OSX cover topics like sockets, and pipes? Well because its all been done before. Did Apple add new functionality to the sockets API? I dont think so. Its pointless.
Larry Wall loves to dismiss awk, and emphasize how brillant he thinks he is, but the fact is he should bow down to awk. Oh, so he ran into a stumbling block with awk and wet his pants and so decided to build a better scripting language. So what. Do you know anyone who can sit through the Camel book? huh? No. Someone said it was a great example of technical writing. There is so much in that book, yet its missing almost everything. Thats where all the other gigantic Perl books come from. If he knew how to write he could have fitted all the info into one book. But instead, you get him blabbing about how he is a hacker and this and that. BOW!