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  • Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines

    Due to obviousness, I usually wouldn't thumb such things up...but I keep running into people who don't get it: "And who better understands the Unix-nature...is it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?"

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  • Rated by jaxspin on Aug 28, 1:55am

    Reading the comments, it seems that somebody is an avid C-programmer :)

  • Rated by S0meoneElse on Jul 07, 12:56am

    This site is simply awesome. Full of programmistic wisdom and guidance.

  • Rated by metaeducation on Jul 02, 11:02am

    Due to obviousness, I usually wouldn't thumb such things up...but I keep running into people who don't get it: "And who better understands the Unix-nature...is it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?"

  • Rated by topcoder1 on May 07 2009, 1:52pm

    lol

  • Rated by leblebi on Dec 11 2008, 8:57am

    shell script == someone has done it for you c+open source libraries == someone has done it for you there is no difference.

  • Rated by IanQuigley on Dec 10 2008, 12:59am

    Seriously lame. In summary; good coders write less code. If you're a coder and didn't know that already GTFO!

  • Rated by harborcaptain on Dec 09 2008, 8:22pm

    First of the "Rootless Root" Unix koans - amusing little stories about the nature of Unix/programming. In this koan, we learn the wisdom in avoiding the re-inventing the wheel every time you need one. I like that all of these little koans have a kernel of truth in them. My favorite is probably the MCSE koan.

  • Reviewed by slowmo on Dec 01 2008, 6:04am

    utter rubbish at trying to be zen-like. there is more unix-nature in one line of C code than one line of shell script applies for kernel, drivers and guess what? shells! Oh gee, lets take out all the #include in every source file and see if it friggin compile. No wait, you can't script anything because you can't fork() anything! A script language is a script language, a programming language is a programming language, they don't mix. Thats why there's never a old guru master in the mountains somewhere. Man.. i gotta cut back on the caffine.