- Quote #31 In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. -- Alan Perli
- 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 thu... - Quote #34
Q: What is IBM's definition of a man year?
A: 720 programmers trying to finish the job before lunch.... - Quote #35
In article stevekh@perot.mtsu.edu (Steven K.
Halliburton) write... - Quote #36
"FORTRAN's DO statement is far scarier than GOTO ever was - nothing can
match the sheer gibbering horror of the `come from' loop if the programmer
didn't document it well.
.." ... - Quote #37 Stroustroup writes in the ARM
- Quote #39
From the May/June'94 IEEE Institute, an article about John Backus receiving
the Draper Prize for having developed Fortra
"Another of Fortran's breakthroughs was the GOTO stateme... - 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....
