The Elements of Networking Style: And Other Essays & Animadversions on the Art of Intercomputer Networking

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The World’s Only Known Constructively Snotty Computer Science Book: historically, its polemics for TCP/IP and against the international standardsmongers’ “OSI” helped the Internet happen; currently, its principles of technoaesthetic criticism are still eminently applicable to the States of most (probably all) technical Arts—all this and Cover Cartoons, too . . . but it’s not for those who can’t deal with real sentences . . . If, as we should, we let 1,000 flowers bloom,
We let 10,000 weeds bloom as well;
It must be our great task, then,
To distinguish the weeds from the flowers