(07-05-2020, 10:42 PM)phillbush Wrote: Do you guys know good books for programming in Xlib?

I have just found the book Low Level X Window Programming: An Introduction by Examples, by Ross J. Maloney.
Different of the other books on Xlib that throw the routines expecting the reader to put them together and understand how them connect to each other (an approach not that different from learning just by reading man pages), this book explains the routines as it provides examples, in the same style of K&R's The C Programming Language (but less elegantly).
I am reading it RN.

(08-05-2020, 07:34 PM)twee Wrote: It's quite old but the Unix Programming Environment was one I found fascinating, and it got me into Roff which I'm thankful for.

I've read it last month, and I created a thread here about the author's comments on echo(1).
It is indeed an excellent book, although not that recent.
It says stuff that does not work anymore (like open(2)ing directories) and some command line utilities that doesn't exist anymore, like teach(1), learn(1) and news(1).
The trickiest part of reading it is converting the old K&R C into modern C.

This book also got me into troff, and also into yacc(1) and lex(1).

(08-05-2020, 07:34 PM)twee Wrote: I'd be interested to be read more about compilers. What are your recommended introductory texts, or is the dragon book the way to go?

The books by Aho, basically, which includes the Dragon book.
Also, check the bibliography on the back of the Chapter 8 of The UNIX Programming Environment (the chapter on yacc).