[dtrace-discuss] dtrace language reference

Mike Gerdts
Tue, 15 May 2007 02:03:16 -0000

On 5/14/07, Charles Martin <chasrmartin at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A grammar would certainly be a way to do it.  I certainly referred to
> the grammar in K&R back in the day, even pre-function prototypes.  A

Before you mentioned K&R, it was exactly the reference I was thinking
of.  The second edition (with function prototypes - I''m not that old)
and "UNIX in a Nutshell" (2nd edition - I''m not that young
either)
served me quite well in my early years.

> Look  this is just a toss-off, but something like this:

Excellent example.  The great thing about K&R and the Nutshell books
was that it was easy to find a simplified example and get an
explanation of why it works.  Especially in the case of the nutshell
books, it was easy to see the various options available with special
notes about incompatibilities between implementations.  A DTrace
Nutshell book would be great to track the improvements over time.

Mike

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