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Quote #625 Controlling Complexity Is The Essence Of Computer Programming. -- Brian Kerniga
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Kerniga
VII. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
-- Laws of Computer Programming...
Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
Laws of Computer Programming, VII...
Quote #686 Computer Science is the first engineering discipline in which the complexity of the objects created is limited solely by the skill of the creato
and not by the strength of raw materials. -- B. Reid...
Quote #41 As practiced by computer science, the study of programming is an unholy mixture of mathematics, literary criticism, and folklore.
-- B. A. Sheil, 1981...
Quote #47 A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English.
Quote #43 "First learn computer science and all the theory.
Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack." -- George Carrette...
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Brian Kernigha
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.
Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence....