- Quote #31
In the long run, every program becomes rococo
and then rubble. -- Alan... - Quote #32
It is easier to change the specification
to fit the program than vice versa... - Quote #33
The 9th Commandment for C Programmers (Annotated
Henry Spencer) states thus: IX Thy external identifiers... - Quote #34
Q: What is IBM's definition of a man year
A: 720 programmers trying to finish the job before... - Quote #35
In article stevekh@perot.mtsu.edu (Steven K
Halliburton) writes: But I have a slowly coagulating... - Quote #36
"FORTRAN's DO statement is far scarier than GOTO ever was
nothing can match the sheer gibbering horror of... - Quote #37
Stroustroup writes in the ARM: C programmers think that memory allocation is
too important to be left to the computer
Lisp programmers think that memory allocation is... - Quote #38
Without naming names (which I couldn't anyway because I've forgotten exactly
who it was)
one the most amusing bug reports we received at Lucid... - Quote #39
From the May/June'94 IEEE Institute, an article about John Backus receiving
the Draper Prize for having developed Fortran
Another of Fortran's breakthroughs was the GOTO... - Quote #40
The first time I encountered setjmp() was in an Amiga program ported from
Unix
Hmm, what's setjmp()?" I said, pulling up the man page...
