超难技术文献翻译汇总

【图灵图书推荐】此书号称Linux程序员秘笈，上一版中文版在china-pub上有200多条评论，大有翘首企盼的味道。
此外，Wrox新出Professional Linux Programming一书中文版也将由图灵出版。此书正在寻找译者，请大家踊跃报名。

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Linux世界仅次于Torvalds的二号人物，源代码的维护者Alan Cox，为图灵即将出版的《Linux程序设计》写了序言。高手就是高手，一上来，就把我们弄晕了。

"Every computer programmer has his own piles of notes and scribbles. They have their code examples saved from the past heroic dive into the manuals or from Usenet, where sometimes even fools fear to follow. (The other body of opinion is that fools all get free Usenet access and use it nonstop.) It is therefore perhaps strange that so few books follow such a style. In the online world there are a lot of short, to-the-point documents about specific areas of programming and administration."

前三句该怎么翻译呢？请高手告我。

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【更新】感谢大家的指教和讨论，我已经受益匪浅。非常抱歉，没有在第一次给出更多的上下文。对fool的理解，的确是这里的关键。感觉还是我把完整序言放在下面，大家再议论一下。

Every computer programmer has his own piles of notes and scribbles. They have their code examples
saved from the past heroic dive into the manuals or from Usenet, where sometimes even fools fear to follow.
(The other body of opinion is that fools all get free Usenet access and use it nonstop.) It is therefore
perhaps strange that so few books follow such a style. In the online world there are a lot of short, to-thepoint
documents about specific areas of programming and administration. The Linux documentation
project released a whole pile of documents covering everything from installing Linux and Windows
on the same machine to wiring your coffee machine to Linux. Seriously. Take a look at The Linux
Documentation Project on http://www.tldp.org.
The book world, on the other hand, seems to consist mostly of either learned tomes, detailed and very
complete works that you don’t have time to read, or books for complete beginners that you buy for
friends as a joke. There are very few books that try to cover the basics of a lot of useful areas. This book
is one of them, a compendium of those programmers’ notes and scribbles, deciphered (try reading a programmer’s
handwriting), edited, and brought together coherently as a book.
This updated third edition of Beginning Linux Programming has been reviewed and updated to reflect
today’s Linux developments, including a chapter on programming with the Qt toolkit, the basis of the
KDE GUI.
Chapter 18 is your chance to join the world of kernel programmers. As you will discover, it isn’t actually
that different from writing modules for large application programs. Put on your pointy hat, grow a
beard, drink Jolt Cola, and come join in the fun.