Speaking of such parallels... There's that classic essay by Thomas Scoville - "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature" (http://theody.net/elements.html http:

Speaking of such parallels... There's that classic essay by Thomas Scoville - "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature" (http://theody.net/elements.html http://theody.net/elements.html). I highly recommend reading it to anyone, even though it's not directly tied to "programmers" in the contemporary sense of this term.