Developement-related quotes

Post #142,235 by Arkadiy 2/18/04 6:53:10 PM Reply	Developement-related quotes [link\|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?QuotesOnProgramDevelopment\|http://c2.com/cgi/wi...rogramDevelopment] -- "...and pronounce all four E's in the word 'shit'"
Post #142,270 by tuberculosis 2/19/04 12:33:24 AM Reply	Not a single Perlis quote? [link\|http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html\|http://www.cs.yale.e...-alan/quotes.html] It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop. It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical? The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of bean counters. -- Alan Kay
Post #142,271 by tuberculosis 2/19/04 12:50:40 AM Reply	Another big stash [link\|http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/quotes.html\|http://starship.pyth...w/mwh/quotes.html] My first thought was someone should offer Mr. Bush elocution lessons. But he'd probably say he knew how to work them chairs already. -- Internet Oracularity #1294-01 Do I do everything in C++ and teach a course in advanced swearing? -- David Beazley at IPC8, on choosing a language for teaching ... Windows proponents tell you that it will solve things that your Unix system people keep telling you are hard. The Unix people are right: they are hard, and Windows does not solve them, ... -- Tim Bradshaw, comp.lang.lisp BUGS Never use this function. This function modifies its first argument. The identity of the delimiting character is lost. This function cannot be used on constant strings. -- the glibc manpage for strtok(3) The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of bean counters. -- Alan Kay
Post #142,273 by tjsinclair 2/19/04 1:13:21 AM Reply	I like this one I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there. -- Steve Gonedes I knew there was something bugging me about C++! Tom Sinclair The question seldom addressed is where Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle. -- (Terry Pratchett, Soul Music)
Post #142,275 by FuManChu 2/19/04 2:05:47 AM Reply	OMG brilliant! Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from irony. -- Erik Naggum
Post #143,525 by bluke 2/26/04 4:03:43 PM Reply	This one says it best for me Quote of the Day: "Java's primary roots are out of the C++ world. From that standpoint, Java is a big step up. It's a cleaner, object-oriented language. And the benefits of a Virtual Machine on every platform are obvious. "But I came to Java from a different world of programming, the Smalltalk world. For people who program in Smalltalk, Java is a 30-year step back. Smalltalk is what made object-oriented programming real. It had a mature class library and culture from the day it was released, whereas the C++ world just kind of happened. Its class library still isn\ufffdt stable. The result for me is that Java is an absolute requirement in today\ufffds software world, but sometimes it hurts"

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