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If You Don't Know What Your Program Is Supposed To Do, You'd Better Not Start Writing It.
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If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better
not start writing it.
-- Dijkstra
Related:
If you ever want to have a lot of fun, I recommend that you go off and program an imbedded system.
The salient characteristic of an imbedded system is that it cannot be allowed to get into a state from which only direct intervention will suffice to remove it....
You can't always do what you're supposed to do. -- Arlo Guthrie
You mean I'm supposed to know what the heck I'm saying?
Maj. Burns: What kind of idiot do you think I am? Cpl.
O'Reily: You'd know that better than me, sir. -- M*A*S*H, television program...
Software Engineering: How to program if you cannot. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
I think you had better start lining your hat with tinfoil.
This program posts news to billions of machines throughout the galaxy.
Your message will cost the net enough to bankrupt your entire planet....
It's 11:00 o'clock. Do you know what your cats are shredding?
Now Sally, don't you know you are not supposed to eat with your knife?
"Yes, Mother, but my fork leaks....