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Illustrator Gloria Garland Language English Publication date 1987 Originally published 1987 Page count 151 Country United States of America | 4.1/5 Goodreads Cover artist Gloria Garland Publisher InfoBooks Media type Print (Paperback) Subject Computer programming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The tao of programming book 1
The Tao of Programming is a book written in 1987 by Geoffrey James. Written in a tongue-in-cheek style spoof of classic Taoist texts such as the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi which belies its serious message, it consists of a series of short anecdotes divided into nine "books":
The themes of the book espouse many hacker ideals—managers should leave programmers to their work; code should be small, elegant, and maintainable; corporate wisdom is more often than not an oxymoron; and so on.
Geoffrey James wrote two other books on this theme, The Zen of Programming in 1988 and Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age in 1989.
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The Tao of Programming Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA