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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
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+.\" sp 2.5i
+.sp 4c
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-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
+
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