The Tao of Programming

The Tao of Programming is a book written in 1987 by Geoffrey James. A tongue-in-cheek spoof of the Tao Te Ching and the Chuang Tzu (or the Taoist book Zhuangzi ), The Tao of Programming consists of a series of short anecdotes divided into nine books -- The Silent Void , The Ancient Masters , Design , Coding , Maintenance , Management , Corporate Wisdom , Hardware and Software , and the Epilogue . The themes of the book espouse many Hacker ideals -- managers should leave programmers to their work; code should be small, elegant, and able to be maintained; corporate wisdom is more often than not an oxymoron; and so on.

Geoffrey James wrote two more books like The Tao of Programming -- . However, they have not been as well received.

=External Links=

*[http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html An online version of The Tao of Programming ] *[http://www.forum2.org/tal/books/tao.html A review of The Tao of Programming by Tal Cohen]