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3 | <P> | ||
4 | A novice asked the Master: "Here is a programmer that never designs, | ||
5 | documents, or tests his programs. Yet all who know him consider him one of | ||
6 | the best programmers in the world. Why is this?" | ||
7 | The Master replies: "That programmer has mastered the Tao. He has | ||
8 | gone beyond the need for design; he does not become angry when the system | ||
9 | crashes, but accepts the universe without concern. He has gone beyond the | ||
10 | need for documentation; he no longer cares if anyone else sees his code. He | ||
11 | has gone beyond the need for testing; each of his programs are perfect within | ||
12 | themselves, serene and elegant, their purpose self-evident. Truly, he has | ||
13 | entered the mystery of the Tao."<BR> | ||
14 | -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"<BR><BR> | ||
15 | |||
16 | I went on to test the program in every way I could devise. I strained it to | ||
17 | expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and low-mass stars, for | ||
18 | stars born exceedingly hot and those born relatively cold. I ran it assuming | ||
19 | the superfluid currents beneath the crust to be absent -- not because I wanted | ||
20 | to know the answer, but because I had developed an intuitive feel for the | ||
21 | answer in this particular case. Finally I got a run in which the computer | ||
22 | showed the pulsar's temperature to be less than absolute zero. I had found | ||
23 | an error. I chased down the error and fixed it. Now I had improved the | ||
24 | program to the point where it would not run at all.<BR> | ||
25 | -- George Greenstein, "Frozen Star:<BR> | ||
26 | Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars"<BR><BR> | ||
27 | </P> | ||
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