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* ''Epilogue''

The themes of the book espouse many [[Hacker (computingprogrammer subculture)|hacker]] ideals – 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.

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}}