When I began programming, I read a copy of Richard Steven’s “Programming in the UNIX Environment.” Ultimately, my early experimentations with C were a failure; however, I later read David Beazley’s “Python: Essential Reference,” and was quickly able to pick up the UNIX API via it’s much simpler (admittedly, largely due to Beazley’s writing) Python counterpart. After teaching my undergraduate PL courses in Scheme variants these past few years I have wondered if we can understan...
