- Quote #21
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful... - 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 #23
German programmers tend to take it as a personal insult when a fault is
detected in code that they have written
Debora Weber-Wulff weberwu@tfh-berlin.de [comp.risks... - Quote #24
As an appointed member of the three man committee on the long range future
of COBOL
which committee was never disbanded, so I assume it... - Quote #25
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness
Impatience, and Hubris." -- Larry Wall in den... - Quote #26
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its
author
S. C.... - Quote #27
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't
as easy to get programs right as we had thought
Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the... - Quote #28
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers
a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding... - Quote #29
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct
not tried it." -- Donald... - Quote #30
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system
in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed...
