We should not introduce errors through sloppiness, we should
do it carefully and systematically.
-- E.W. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming (p. 56)
do it carefully and systematically.
-- E.W. Dijkstra, A Discipline of Programming (p. 56)
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- We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
Edsger W.... - The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should,
therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. ... - APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of
the future for the programming techniques of the past:
it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger... - Learn what we should learn; do what we should do; be what we should be.
Thomas S.... - Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
--
Ronald W.... - while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery,
we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained... - Quote #500
`... if we wish to count lines of code,
we should not regard them as ``lines produced''... - We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
Edsger...
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