Quotations - Random

Quotations - Random

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Quote #1 There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohe...
Quote #3 `The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.
' -- Mark-Jason Dominus (shouldn't it be "proportional" - larger scope, larger name????)...
Quote #4 The princicples of modularity, simplicity, or orthogonality, insofar as they contribute to overall simplicity, are an excellent means to an end
but as a substitute for simplicity...
Quote #5 Here is a classic example of a language feature which combines danger to the programmer with difficulty for the implementor.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, "Hints on programming language desig...
Quote #6 The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques which put them into practice, the more is my amazement and admiration of ALGOL 60.
Here is a language so fa...
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Quote #8 Rob Pike says: `Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.
Data structures, no...
Quote #9 [visual basic] als suffers from having to run in the awful windows environment, where the least provocation can cause one's machine to go catatonic.
Interprocess communication i...
Quote #10 You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
-- Michael Meissner, meissner@osf....

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