Programming Quotes

[NotAllThere]

"Do you still have box that the computer was packed in?"

[NickFitz]

"There are only two things wrong with C++: the initial concept and the implementation" - Bertrand Meyer.

[thunderlizard]

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. ~Stan Kelly-Bootle

[Wodewick]

Bob! Hey Bob! WTF is this Tulip

[Zippy]

"There are only two things wrong with C++: the initial concept and the implementation" - Bertrand Meyer.

Oh dear me yes, I do remember that feud. Makes the on here look like a drunken smooch at the end of the school dance.

[AtW]

I know only two:

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and

''

HTH

[doodab]

I well remember when this realization first came on me with full force. The EDSAC was on the top floor of the building and the tape-punching and editing equipment one floor below. [...] It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that "hesitating at the angles of stairs" the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs.

My personal favourite.

[doodab]

The Three Virtues of a Programmer:

• Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
• Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
• Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.

And another.

[NotAllThere]

I know only two:

""

and

''

HTH

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