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_____________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> 8.1 <BR> A novice asked the master: "I perceive that one computer <BR> company is much larger than all others. It towers above its <BR> competition like a giant among dwarfs. Any one of its divisions <BR> could comprise an entire business. Why is this so?" <BR> <BR> The master replied, "Why do you ask such foolish questions? <BR> That company is large because it is so large. If it only made <BR> hardware, nobody would buy it. If it only maintained systems, <BR> people would treat it like a servant. But because it combines <BR> all of these things, people think it one of the gods! By not <BR> seeking to strive, it conquers without effort." <BR> <BR> 8.2 <BR> A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The <BR> master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held <BR> computer game. "Excuse me", he said, "may I examine it?" <BR> <BR> The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the <BR> master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of <BR> play: Easy, Medium, and Hard", said the master. "Yet every such <BR> device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to <BR> conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human." <BR> <BR> "Pray, great master," implored the novice, "how does one find <BR> this mysterious setting?" <BR> <BR> The master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it <BR> under foot. And suddenly the novice was enlightened. <BR> <BR> 8.3 <BR> There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors. <BR> "Look at how well off I am here," he said to a mainframe <BR> programmer who came to visit, "I have my own operating system <BR> and file storage device. I do not have to share my resources <BR> with anyone. The software is self-consistent and easy-to-use. <BR> Why do you not quit your present job and join me here?" <BR> <BR> The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to <BR> his friend, saying: "The mainframe sits like an ancient sage <BR> meditating in the midst of the data center. Its disk drives lie <BR> end-to-end like a great ocean of machinery. The software is a <BR> multi-faceted as a diamond and as convoluted as a primeval <BR> jungle. The programs, each unique, move through the system like <BR> a swift-flowing river. That is why I am happy where I am." <BR> <BR> The microcomputer programmer, upon hearing this, fell silent. <BR> But the two programmers remained friends until the end of their <BR> days. <BR> <BR> 8.4 <BR> Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: <BR> "You are the Yin and I am the Yang. If we travel together we <BR> will become famous and earn vast sums of money." And so the <BR> pair set forth together, thinking to conquer the world. <BR> <BR> Presently, they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags, <BR> and hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to <BR> them: "The Tao lies beyond Yin and Yang. It is silent and still <BR> as a pool of water. It does not seek fame, therefore nobody <BR> knows its presence. It does not seeks fortune, for it is <BR> complete within itself. It exists beyond space and time." <BR> <BR> Software and Hardware, ashamed, returned to their homes. <BR> _________________________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> Epilogue <BR> Book Nine <BR> _____________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> Thus spake the master programmer: <BR> <BR> "Time for you to leave." <BR> <BR> 编程大师如是说: <BR> “该是你出师的时候啦。” <BR> (载注:看到此处不仅抚键一笑,深感可意会不可言传之道之妙。非不能 <BR> 也,乃因道一经口舌,只能表其一面;而道乃完满,难道其全。 <BR> 是故不道,令众人自悟之也。GNU之黑客道之吸引力足可鉴之。) <BR> _____________________________________________________ <BR> <BR> <BR>=====Part III End: Book 7/8/9======= <BR>公元2000年10月23日,《编程之道》(The Tao of Programming)分三部分 <BR>转载。希望众位道友编程悟道,以完编程人生,不亦乐乎! <BR> <BR>ClearMind于清华科技园,与道友共勉。 <BR> <BR>-- <BR> <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 smth.org·[FROM: 210.73.87.125] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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