Event timelines of the Unix Industry and of GNU/Linux and Unix are available on the Web. A timeline tree of Unix releases is also available.
[Bentley] Programming Pearls. 2nd Edition. 2000. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-65788-0.
The third essay in this book, “Data Structures Programs”, argues a case similar to that of Chapter�9 with Bentley's characteristic eloquence. Some of the book is�available on the Web.
[Brooks] The Mythical Man-Month. 20th Anniversary Edition. Addison-Wesley. 1995. ISBN 0-201-83595-9.
[Boehm] Advantages and Disadvantages of Conservative Garbage Collection.
Thorough discussion of tradeoffs between garbage-collected and non-garbage-collected environments. Available on the Web.
[Cannon] Recommended C Style and Coding Standards. 1990.
An updated version of the Indian Hill C Style and Coding Standards paper, with modifications by the last three authors. It describes a recommended coding standard for C programs. Available on the Web.
[Lions] Lions's Commentary on Unix 6th Edition. 1996. 1-57398-013-7. Peer-To-Peer Communications.
PostScript rendering of Lions's original floats around the Web. This URL may be unstable.
[Ousterhout96] Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (for most purposes). 1996.
An invited talk at USENIX 1996. There is no written paper that corresponds to it, but the slide presentation is available on the Web.
[Pike] Notes on Programming in C.
This document is popular on the Web; a title search is sure to find several copies. Here is one.
[Prechelt] An Empirical Comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl for a Search/String-Processing Program.
[Schaffer-Wolf] The Unix Shell as a Fourth-Generation Language. 1991.
Available on the Web. An open-source implementation, NoSQL, is available and readily turned up by a Web search.
[Schwartz-Christiansen] Learning Perl. 3rd Edition. O'Reilly & Associates. 2001. ISBN 0-596-00132-0.
[Stephenson] In the Beginning Was the Command Line. 1999.
Available on the Web, and also as a trade paperback from Avon Books.
[Vaughan] GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool. New Riders Publishing. 2000. 390�p.. ISBN 1-578-70190-2.
A user's guide to the GNU autoconfiguration tools. Available on the Web.