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dedication: I guess I need to have three quotes ...
| author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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| date | Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:58:40 +0200 |
| parents | c8a760de091d |
| children | 0628571d32d7 |
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12 Instead, what makes it (the UNIX system) effective is an approach
13 to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although
14 that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at
15 its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from
16 the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves.
17 .\" The UNIX Programming Environment, p. viii
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19 At the heart of the \f(ICUnix\fI philosophy is the idea that
20 the power of a system comes more from the relationship
21 among programs than from the programs themselves.
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24 \(em Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike \(em
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29 As computing scientists we know that in our area,
30 perhaps more than everywhere else,
31 mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury
32 but decides between success and failure.
33 .\" EWD 896
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35 How do we convince people that in programming
36 simplicity and clarity \(enin short: what mathematicians
37 call ``elegance''\(en are not a dispensable luxury, but a
38 crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
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45 Open your mind to the past \(en art, history, philosophy.
46 And all this may mean something.
47 .\" Star Trek, TNG, 2x17 ``Samaritan Snare''
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