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"
[ STAN-CS-73-403 (AIM-224), p.15, about "labelled END"]
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"
[ STAN-CS-73-403 (AIM-224), p.15, about "labelled END"]
Related:
- Quote #6
The more I ponder the principles of language design,
and the techniques which put them into practice... - Quote #22
``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data
structure to another.
Their introduction into high-level languages has been... - Quote #4
The princicples of modularity, simplicity,
or orthogonality, insofar as they contribute to... - The C Programming Language --
A language which combines the flexibility of assembly... - The C Programming Language --
A language which combines the flexibility of assembly... - The C Programming Language --
A language which combines the flexibility of assembly... - gotcha n.
A misfeature of a system, especially a
programming language or environment,
that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it...
From the same category:
- Quote #574
Computer code is like legal code... the more you amend it,
the more holes you create. -- from a Slashdot... - Quote #271
"Ist es eine Leitungsstörung? Ist es ein Coredump?
Nein, es ist sendmail.cf." -- Kristian... - Quote #140
"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain,
among which there is no difference betwixt those... - Quote #563
Her low-cut, revealing gown was black -
black like her heart, although not really because... - Quote #157
"Not at all tricky. We do this sort of stuff every day before breakfast.
Then I fly to work on my winged pig, Swilma." ...
