Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward BerardTags: programming
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
John WoodsTags: programming
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
Paul GrahamTags: programming
The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.
Steven S. SkienaTags: programming
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
Brian W. KernighanTags: programming
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
Michael CrichtonTags: programming
Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.
After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.
Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.
Tags: humor computers programming
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.
Joseph WeizenbaumTags: programming software programmer
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
Donald Ervin KnuthTags: programming computer-science
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan J. PerlisTags: programming
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