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A comment on The Tao of Programming (1987).

Re:The Tao of Programming (1987) by forgotmypw2 on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:06PM (#19023669)
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http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

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Re:The Tao of Programming (1987) by yellowapple on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @02:35PM (#19029176)
And for the best of both worlds: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html

The first one's my favorite:

    A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power
    off and on.

    Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot
    fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what
    is going wrong.”

    Knight turned the machine off and on.

    The machine worked.
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Re:The Tao of Programming (1987) by linsomniac on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:45PM (#19023843)
Another of my favorites.
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