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| author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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| date | Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:44:15 +0200 |
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| meillo@0 | 6 .vs 14 |
| meillo@163 | 7 .sp 2.5i |
| meillo@163 | 8 .\" sp 4c |
| meillo@0 | 9 .ft I |
| meillo@0 | 10 .ce 99 |
| meillo@0 | 11 .ig |
| meillo@144 | 12 Instead, what makes it (the UNIX system) effective is an approach |
| meillo@144 | 13 to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although |
| meillo@144 | 14 that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at |
| meillo@144 | 15 its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from |
| meillo@144 | 16 the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves. |
| meillo@144 | 17 .\" The UNIX Programming Environment, p. viii |
| meillo@0 | 18 .. |
| meillo@163 | 19 .ig |
| meillo@144 | 20 At the heart of the \f(ICUnix\fI philosophy is the idea that |
| meillo@0 | 21 the power of a system comes more from the relationship |
| meillo@0 | 22 among programs than from the programs themselves. |
| meillo@144 | 23 .\" freely rearranged |
| meillo@0 | 24 .sp |
| meillo@0 | 25 \(em Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike \(em |
| meillo@163 | 26 .sp 3 |
| meillo@163 | 27 .. |
| meillo@144 | 28 |
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| meillo@65 | 30 .ig |
| meillo@65 | 31 As computing scientists we know that in our area, |
| meillo@144 | 32 perhaps more than everywhere else, |
| meillo@144 | 33 mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury |
| meillo@144 | 34 but decides between success and failure. |
| meillo@144 | 35 .\" EWD 896 |
| meillo@144 | 36 .. |
| meillo@144 | 37 How do we convince people that in programming |
| meillo@163 | 38 simplicity and clarity \(en in short: what mathematicians |
| meillo@163 | 39 call ``elegance'' \(en are not a dispensable luxury, but a |
| meillo@144 | 40 crucial matter that decides between success and failure? |
| meillo@144 | 41 .\" EWD 648 |
| meillo@65 | 42 .sp |
| meillo@65 | 43 \(em Edsger W. Dijkstra \(em |
| meillo@176 | 44 .Id dijkstra |
| meillo@144 | 45 |
| meillo@144 | 46 |
| meillo@163 | 47 .ig |
| meillo@144 | 48 .sp 3 |
| meillo@144 | 49 Open your mind to the past \(en art, history, philosophy. |
| meillo@144 | 50 And all this may mean something. |
| meillo@144 | 51 .\" Star Trek, TNG, 2x17 ``Samaritan Snare'' |
| meillo@144 | 52 .sp |
| meillo@144 | 53 \(em Jean-Luc Picard \(em |
| meillo@163 | 54 .. |
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| meillo@0 | 56 .ce 0 |