It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Linux is only free if your time has no value I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses ![]() "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I’ll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."ījarne Stroustrup has many great quotes attributed to him, including: The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.Īlways code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.ĭebugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Still laughing about it here :) What he meant was that a function " gud is grand-unified-debugger " is in Emacs.Ī great one I think all programmers should know is The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer. ![]() Today (Sept 12, 2008) I heard a new one from a friend, Lars-Gunnar, he said " Gud finns i Emacs" (in Swedish). ![]() There are a lot of great programming quotes out there. The quotes on this page come from this deleted question on Stackoverflow: □️ This document is part of several gists with Programming Quotes:
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