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		yellowapple on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tao of Programming (1987) And without the various typos, to boot.

kiddico on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

Said typos are (for the most part) on purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024327

yellowapple on Jan 29, 2019 | [–]

If they were deliberate, then that would imply that their existence is perfection. To recognize that the typos were accidental mistakes by the human typing them is to recognize the Tao.

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