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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(-) [+]
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     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