Quote #644
The price of reliability is the pursuit of utmost simplicity. It is a price
which the very rich find most hard to pay.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, quoted by Dijkstra (EWD 1304)
The price of reliability is the pursuit of utmost simplicity. It is a price
which the very rich find most hard to pay.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, quoted by Dijkstra (EWD 1304)
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I firmly believe that no project can result in a product better than the
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A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
-- D.... - Quote #645
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