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Explained `hidden switches'.
| author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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| date | Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:13:54 +0200 |
| parents | 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
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33 mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury
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