Programming Books – L

Licensing

• Creative Commons: a user guide – Simone Aliprandi
• Open Source Licensing Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law – Lawrence Rosen
• The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind – James Boyle

LaTeX / TeX

LaTeX

• Arbitrary LaTex Reference
• Begin Latex in minutes
• LaTeX Wikibook
• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX (PDF)

TeX

• Notes On Programming in TeX – Christian Feursänger (PDF)
• TeX by Topic, A TeXnician’s Reference – Victor Eijkhout
• TeX for the Impatient – Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves, and Karl Berry

Limbo

• Inferno Programming With Limbo

Linux

• Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line
• Advanced Linux Programming (PDF)
• Automated Linux From Scratch
• Getting Started with Ubuntu
• GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
• GTK+/Gnome Application Development
• Hardened Linux From Scratch
• Kali Linux: Professional Penetration-Testing Distribution
• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous – Michael Hartl
• Learning Debian GNU/Linux
• Linux 101 Hacks – Ramesh Natarajan (PDF)
• Linux Administrator’s Security Guide
• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO
• Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition – Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
• Linux from Scratch
• Linux Inside
• Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
• Linux Newbie Administrator Guide
• Linux Security for Beginners
• Linux Succinctly, Syncfusion (PDF, Kindle) (email address requested, not required)
• OpenVZ Linux virtualization (PDF)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Essentials
• Secure Programming HOWTO – Creating Secure Software – D. A. Wheeler (HTML, PDF)
• Ten Steps to Linux Survival: Bash for Windows People – Jim Lehmer
• The Debian Administrator’s Handbook
• The Linux Command Line (PDF)
• The Linux Development Platform (PDF)
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
• The Linux System Administrator’s Guide
• Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
• Ubuntu Server Guide (PDF)
• Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager – Mel Gorman (HTML, PDF)
• UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4 – David A. Curry
• Upstart Intro, Cookbook and Best Practises
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (PDF)

Lisp

• Basic Lisp Techniques – David J. Cooper, Jr. (PDF)
• Casting Spels in Lisp
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation – David S. Touretzky (PDF, PS)
• Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach – Stuart C. Shapiro
• Common Lisp Quick Reference
• Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
• Google’s Common Lisp Style Guide
• Interpreting LISP – Gary D. Knott (PDF)
• Learn Lisp The Hard Way – Colin J.E. Lupton
• Let Over Lambda – 50 Years of Lisp – D. Hoyte
• Lisp Hackers: Interviews with 100x More Productive Programmers – Vsevolod Dyomkin
• Lisp Koans
• Lisp Web Tales – Pavel Penev (Leanpub account or valid email requested)
• On Lisp – P. Graham
• Practical Common Lisp – P. Seibel
• Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp – David Lamkins (PDF)
• The Common Lisp Cookbook
• The Evolution of Lisp – Guy L. Steele Jr., Richard P. Gabriel (PDF)

Livecode

• LiveCode userguide (PDF)

Lua

• Lua 5.1 Reference Manual
• Programming in Lua (first edition)
• Wikibook

Lift

• Exploring Lift (published earlier as “The Definitive Guide to Lift”, PDF)
• Lift
• Lift Cookbook – Richard Dallaway
• Simply Lift – David Pollak (PDF)