''Software Tools'', by [Brian Kernighan] and P.J.Plauger, is an older
book which showed the reader step by step how to build a UNIX-like
environment on any system that supported a decent Fortran compiler,
including almost all the source you needed. By the time you finished
all the exercises, you had [Ratfor], '''roff''', [m4], '''ed''',
[grep], and other tools... the core of the UNIX command-line
environment.

A few years later, ''Software Tools in Pascal'' was released,
achieving the same goal for the next language to be popular.







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