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Illustrator
  
Gloria Garland

Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1987

Originally published
  
1987

Page count
  
151

Country
  
United States of America

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Cover artist
  
Gloria Garland

Publisher
  
InfoBooks

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Author
  
Geoffrey James

Subject
  
Computer programming

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Genres
  
Computer programming, Satire

Similar
  
Computer programming books, Software development books

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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 Silent Void
  • The Ancient Masters
  • Design
  • Coding
  • Maintenance
  • Management
  • Corporate Wisdom
  • Hardware and Software
  • Epilogue

    • 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.

    References

    The Tao of Programming Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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