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A comment on The Art of Unix Programming (2008).

Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by dominotw on Sunday May 25, 2014 @11:27AM (#7796538)
" Senior engineers develop huge bodies of implicit knowledge, which they pass to their juniors by (as Zen Buddhists put it) “a special transmission, outside the scriptures”."

Really? I think its silly to make pretentious quotes from Zen Buddhists( apparently). The whole book is filled with pretentious quotes from usenet groups.

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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by mattgreenrocks on Sunday May 25, 2014 @01:37PM (#7796911)
Are you discounting the manner, or the substance here?

It's one thing to nitpick about style, but there's nothing wrong with the assertion.

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Re:The Art of Unix Programming (2008) by rwallace on Monday May 26, 2014 @06:55AM (#7799293)
I disagree. I think a sprinkling of pretentious quotes from Zen Buddhists, USENET groups etc. can help liven up what would otherwise be a dry topic.
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