[Smithalicious]

I always have a very conflicted feeling about the Unix-Haters Handbook. It's clearly intended to make legitimate criticisms, but then there is a kind of tongue-in-cheek exagerrated part to it, but then behind that there's clearly a lot of very real bitterness and barely controlled anger.

I think it's a good book and worth reading still, if not especially, in the modern world where to many people Unix and its family are the hot "alternative" that is often favourably compared against Windows and its ilk.

But I also think that Ritchie's "anti-preface" was already quite on-the-nose when the book came out and has only become more true over time.