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The big difference is that Tao has religious overtones to it, while cowboys of the Old West, doesn’t. I think OP was more concerned about the fact that this is grabbing something out of another culture and potentially misusing it or using it in a way that others might not approve. A perhaps more apropos analogy might be The Ten Commandments of Programming, which would be OK with most people, although the Torah of Programming, which employed Jewish stereotypes in its telling would be more problematic. And having typed that, this is where the potential issue with the article could lie: less in the title and more in the body and whether it employs stereotypes or culturally insensitive appropriations.



Throw in some references to the Islamic prophet and you'd be way in inappropriate territory then.


Isn’t that basically the first edition of Wall’s “Programming Perl”?


Something like side effects being haram?


Fundamentalist functional programmers..


Ten Akhams of Programming maybe?


The 10 commandments used to be used a lot e.g. http://textfiles.com/100/tencoms.pro




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