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Daoism för programmerare

Skrivet torsdag 9 mars 2006, 20:37

The Tao of Programming är en nästan legendarisk programmerarbok från 1987. Den finns också tillgänglig på webben, och bör besökas av alla programmerare!

Boken (som är väldigt kort, åtminstone online) är uppbyggd som en kinesisk bok med visdomsord. (Titeln anspelar på den kinesiska religionen eller filosofin daoism/taoism.) Ett exempel ur boken, som innebär att program inte blir klara om man inte har något mål eller deadline:

A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working. ”It will be finished tomorrow,” the programmer promptly replied.

”I think you are being unrealistic,” said the manager, ”Truthfully, how long will it take?”

The programmer thought for a moment. ”I have some features that I wish to add. This will take at least two weeks,” he finally said.

”Even that is too much to expect,” insisted the manager, ”I will be satisfied if you simply tell me when the program is complete.”

The programmer agreed to this.

Several years later, the manager retired. On the way to his retirement luncheon, he discovered the programmer asleep at his terminal. He had been programming all night.

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