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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: The Tao of Programming
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Date: 11 Aug 89 15:59:35 GMT
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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

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