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| name = The Tao of Programming

| image = The Tao of Programming.jpg| author = [[Geoffrey_James_(journalist)|Geoffrey James]]

| image = [http://www.geoffreyjames.com/taocover.jpg Cover page]

| author = [[Geoffrey James (writer)|Geoffrey James]]

| illustrator = [[Gloria Garland]]

| cover_artist = Gloria Garland

| country = [[United States]]

| language = [[English language|English]]

| subject = [[Computer programming]]

| genre = [[Computer programming]], [[Satire]]

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'''''The Tao of Programming''''' is a book written in 1987 by [[Geoffrey James Geoffrey_James_(writerjournalist)|Geoffrey James]]. Written in a [[tongue-in-cheek]] style spoof of classic [[Taoist]] texts such as the ''[[Tao Te Ching]]'' and ''[[Zhuangzi (book)|Zhuangzi]]'' which belies its serious message., ''The Tao of Programming''it consists of a series of short anecdotes divided into nine "books":<ref>{{Cite web|last=James| first=Geoffrey |url=http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html|title=The Tao of Programming}}</ref>

* ''The Silent Void''

* ''The Ancient Masters''

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* ''Epilogue''

Geoffrey James wrote two moreother books likeon ''Thethis Tao of Programming'' --theme, ''[[The Zen of Programming]]'' (978-0931137099) in 1988 and ''[[Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age]]'' (978-0931137136) in 1989. However, they have not been as well received.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

The themes of the book espouse many [[Hacker (programmer subculture)|hacker]] ideals &ndash; managers should leave programmers to their work; code should be small, elegant, and maintainable; corporate wisdom is more often than not an [[oxymoron]]; and so on.

==See also==

Geoffrey James wrote two more books like ''The Tao of Programming'' -- ''[[The Zen of Programming]]'' in 1988 and ''[[Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age]]'' in 1989. However, they have not been as well received.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

* [[Hacker koan]]

==External linksReferences==

{{Reflist}}

* [http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html An online version of ''The Tao of Programming'']

* [http://huffman.sourceforge.net/tao/tao-of-programming.html An online version of ''The Tao of Programming'']

* [http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ The Unix Koans of Master Foo], by [[Eric S. Raymond]], a writing with related tone and argument, as discussed in its introduction

* [http://livecn.huasing.org/tao_of_programming.htm A Chinese translation of ''The Tao of Programming'']

* [http://www.hvaonline.net/hvaonline/posts/list/22570.hva A Vietnamese translation of ''The Tao of Programming'']

* [http://www.psicobyte.com/ppersonal/risas/tao.html A Spanish translation of ''The Tao of Programming'']

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