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│     There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the          │
│ warlord of Wu.  The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: │
│ an accounting package or an operating system?"                                │
│     "An operating system," replied the programmer.                            │
│     The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief.  "Surely an              │
│ accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating          │
│ system," he said.                                                             │
│     "Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package,     │
│ the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas:  │
│ how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to  │
│ the tax laws.  By contrast, an operating system is not limited my outside     │
│ appearances.  When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the    │
│ simplest harmony between machine and ideas.  This is why an operating system  │
│ is easier to design."                                                         │
│     The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled.  "That is all good and well, but     │
│ which is easier to debug?"                                                    │
│     The programmer made no reply.                                             │
│         -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"                           │
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