- 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... - Quote #41
As practiced by computer science, the study of programming is an unholy
mixture of mathematics,
literary criticism, and folklore. -- B. A. Sheil...
