padurean

// Tar takes a source and variable writers and walks 'source' writing each file
// found to the tar writer; the purpose for accepting multiple writers is to allow
// for multiple outputs (for example a file, or md5 hash)
func Tar(src string, writers ...io.Writer) error {
	
	// ensure the src actually exists before trying to tar it
	if _, err := os.Stat(src); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Unable to tar files - %v", err.Error())
	}

onlurking

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct