# HG changeset patch # User markus schnalke # Date 1341496720 -7200 # Node ID 335f011e82713523c8ceecdf1a0ee54169004209 # Parent 996c4ac500df2cf72af84d73f1fe72a3dbe146af dedication: I guess I need to have three quotes ... diff -r 996c4ac500df -r 335f011e8271 dedication.roff --- a/dedication.roff Thu Jul 05 15:57:55 2012 +0200 +++ b/dedication.roff Thu Jul 05 15:58:40 2012 +0200 @@ -4,29 +4,48 @@ .rs .ps 12 .vs 14 -.sp 2.5i +.\" sp 2.5i +.sp 4c .ft I .ce 99 .ig -The UNIX Programming Environment: - Instead, what makes it (the UNIX system) effective is an approach - to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although - that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at - its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from - the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves. +Instead, what makes it (the UNIX system) effective is an approach +to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although +that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at +its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from +the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves. +.\" The UNIX Programming Environment, p. viii .. -At the heart of the \f(ICunix\fI philosophy is the idea that +At the heart of the \f(ICUnix\fI philosophy is the idea that the power of a system comes more from the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves. +.\" freely rearranged .sp \(em Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike \(em + + +.sp 3 .ig -.sp 4 As computing scientists we know that in our area, -perhaps more than everywhere else, mathematical -elegance is not a dispensable luxury but decides -between success and failure. +perhaps more than everywhere else, +mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury +but decides between success and failure. +.\" EWD 896 +.. +How do we convince people that in programming +simplicity and clarity \(enin short: what mathematicians +call ``elegance''\(en are not a dispensable luxury, but a +crucial matter that decides between success and failure? +.\" EWD 648 .sp \(em Edsger W. Dijkstra \(em -.. + + +.sp 3 +Open your mind to the past \(en art, history, philosophy. +And all this may mean something. +.\" Star Trek, TNG, 2x17 ``Samaritan Snare'' +.sp +\(em Jean-Luc Picard \(em + .ce 0