Quote #31
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
-- Alan Perlis
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
-- Alan Perlis
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Alan... - In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble.
Alan... - rococo adj.
Terminally baroque. Used to imply that a
program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of
gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the
underlying design.
Called after the later and more extreme forms of... - rococo: adj. {Baroque} in the extreme. Used to imply that a
program has become so encrusted with the software equivalent of
gold leaf and curlicues that they have completely swamped the
underlying design.
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> Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
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