bookish, a weblog by George Girton

Happy New Year! . . . . . dec 31 2002 — bookish21.dat

I recently had occasion to pick up my copy of The Tao of Programming. I love this book, first published in 1987. It has many wonderful insights...

...but as I contemplate releasing (and maintaining) RubyJournal, the very small program I use to post this weblog, a particular section of The Tao of Programming comes to mind.

Maintenance 
Thus spake the master programmer:
Though a program be but three lines 
long, someday it will have to be 
maintained.

Head over to amazon.com and "check out the source" of The Tao of Programming buy at amazon.com by Geoffrey James, while it's still in print. That's what I did, and I nearly bought another copy. Whoa there! Instead, I picked up a book I never knew existed: The Zen of Programming by the same author. pools=XML, Blog, Ruby