- Quote #1
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'
It is 'dead'. -- Jack... - Quote #2
It's impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever
Christopher... - Quote #3
`The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of
its scope.'
Mark-Jason Dominus (shouldn't it be "proportional... - Quote #4
The princicples of modularity, simplicity
or orthogonality, insofar as they contribute to... - Quote #5
Here is a classic example of a language feature which combines danger to the
programmer with difficulty for the implementor
C.A.R. Hoare, "Hints on programming language design... - Quote #6
The more I ponder the principles of language design
and the techniques which put them into practice... - Quote
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Rob Pike says: `Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures
and organized things well
the algorithms will almost always be self-evident... - Quote #9
[visual basic] als suffers from having to run in the awful windows
environment
where the least provocation can cause one's machine... - Quote #10
You are in a twisty little passage of standards
all conflicting. -- Michael Meissner, meissner@osf...
