docs/master
changeset 144:335f011e8271
dedication: I guess I need to have three quotes ...
author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
---|---|
date | Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:58:40 +0200 |
parents | 996c4ac500df |
children | 3361e53dfcd6 |
files | dedication.roff |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) [+] |
line diff
1.1 --- a/dedication.roff Thu Jul 05 15:57:55 2012 +0200 1.2 +++ b/dedication.roff Thu Jul 05 15:58:40 2012 +0200 1.3 @@ -4,29 +4,48 @@ 1.4 .rs 1.5 .ps 12 1.6 .vs 14 1.7 -.sp 2.5i 1.8 +.\" sp 2.5i 1.9 +.sp 4c 1.10 .ft I 1.11 .ce 99 1.12 .ig 1.13 -The UNIX Programming Environment: 1.14 - Instead, what makes it (the UNIX system) effective is an approach 1.15 - to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although 1.16 - that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at 1.17 - its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from 1.18 - the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves. 1.19 +Instead, what makes it (the UNIX system) effective is an approach 1.20 +to programming, a philosophy of using the computer. Although 1.21 +that philosophy can't be written down in a single sentence, at 1.22 +its heart is the idea that the power of a system comes more from 1.23 +the relationship among programs than from the programs themselves. 1.24 +.\" The UNIX Programming Environment, p. viii 1.25 .. 1.26 -At the heart of the \f(ICunix\fI philosophy is the idea that 1.27 +At the heart of the \f(ICUnix\fI philosophy is the idea that 1.28 the power of a system comes more from the relationship 1.29 among programs than from the programs themselves. 1.30 +.\" freely rearranged 1.31 .sp 1.32 \(em Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike \(em 1.33 + 1.34 + 1.35 +.sp 3 1.36 .ig 1.37 -.sp 4 1.38 As computing scientists we know that in our area, 1.39 -perhaps more than everywhere else, mathematical 1.40 -elegance is not a dispensable luxury but decides 1.41 -between success and failure. 1.42 +perhaps more than everywhere else, 1.43 +mathematical elegance is not a dispensable luxury 1.44 +but decides between success and failure. 1.45 +.\" EWD 896 1.46 +.. 1.47 +How do we convince people that in programming 1.48 +simplicity and clarity \(enin short: what mathematicians 1.49 +call ``elegance''\(en are not a dispensable luxury, but a 1.50 +crucial matter that decides between success and failure? 1.51 +.\" EWD 648 1.52 .sp 1.53 \(em Edsger W. Dijkstra \(em 1.54 -.. 1.55 + 1.56 + 1.57 +.sp 3 1.58 +Open your mind to the past \(en art, history, philosophy. 1.59 +And all this may mean something. 1.60 +.\" Star Trek, TNG, 2x17 ``Samaritan Snare'' 1.61 +.sp 1.62 +\(em Jean-Luc Picard \(em 1.63 + 1.64 .ce 0