Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:17624 comp.lang.c:20582 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!yale!Horne-Scott From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: The Tao of Programming Message-ID: <69347@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 15:59:35 GMT References: <1989Aug4.073731.1087@ctr.columbia.edu> <4036@cps3xx.UUCP> <1989Aug4.174631.1378@ctr.columbia.edu>Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 20 In-reply-to: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) In article , flee@shire (Felix Lee) writes: > Re _The Tao of Programming_, the Chinese ideographs on the facing > pages are meaningless. The ideographs on the front cover however do > translate to "The Tao of Programming". (Disclaimer, I don't know > Chinese.) I know Chinese; and while I don't have a copy of that book around, I seem to remember that the inscription was in Japanese--something like "puroguramu no dau". A good Chinese translation would be "bian1 cheng2xu4 zhi1 dao4". (I'll post the characters if there is interest. :-) ) "The tao that can be hacked is not the everlasting dao...." :-) --Scott Scott Horne Undergraduate programmer, Yale CS Dept Facility horne@cs.Yale.edu ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne Home: 203 789-0877 SnailMail: Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Work: 203 432-1260 Summer residence: 175 Dwight St, New Haven, CT Dare I speak for the amorphous gallimaufry of intellectual thought called Yale?