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• Quote #578 I think part of the reason people in big companies like object-oriented programming is because it yields a lot of what looks like work.
  Something that might naturally be represented as, say, a list of integers, can now be represented as a class with all kinds of scaffolding and hustle and bustle....
• Quote #606 The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion.
  What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code....
• Quote #580 Even a committee of two gets in the way of redesign.
  This happens particularly in the interfaces between pieces of software written by two different people....
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
• COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
  ) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes....
• C++ supports Object-Oriented Programming roughly as much as COBOL supports Functional Programming.
  Shlomi Fish...
• Object Oriented Programming? We've been doing that for years.
  .. When the customer objects to the way it works, we go program some more! -- Al Folsom...
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...