``Any sufficiently complicated Scheme program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.''
-- Bill Gates, Ph.D.
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Anonymous2012-01-03 16:15
``OP is a faggot.''
-Albert Einstein
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Anonymous2012-01-03 16:19
``Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.''
-- Sir Steven P. Jobs
Here are some real ones because I'm not very creative.
``One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.''
-- Robert Firth
``There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.''
-- Bertrand Meyer
``C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.''
-- Steve Taylor
``The memory allocation strategy of Java can be described in 3 words. Nom nom nom.''
``There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.''
-- Jeff Polk
>>9
It's not ASCII, ``faggot.'' It's 59 bits, and 59 is a prime number.
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Anonymous2012-01-03 20:41
What does /prog/ think about this quote?
``Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don’t try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you’ve got to this stage you’ll find it difficult (if not impossible) to “go back” to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering acerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations."
--Andy Bower, C++ expert
"I'm an old cunt and allowed to shrill."
-Elizabeth Rather
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Anonymous2012-01-04 9:47
``Haskell is faster than C++, more concise than Perl, more regular than Python, more flexible than Ruby, more typeful than C#, more robust than Java, and has absolutely nothing in common with PHP''
-- Richard Stallman, entrepreneur
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Anonymous2012-01-04 10:55
``To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program."
-- Alan J. Perlis
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Anonymous2012-01-04 11:05
Another Perlisism:
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
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Anonymous2012-01-04 11:25
"It's more fun to compute"
-- Jim Morrison
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Anonymous2012-01-04 16:05
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
--Edsger Dijkstra
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Anonymous2012-01-04 16:12
>>24
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsger Dijkstra
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums." - Edsger Dijkstra
"FORTRAN, 'the infantile disorder', by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use." - Edsger Dijkstra
"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I think you should prove your program correct before you even try using it in a computer, also, I'm an asshole"
Edsger Dijkstra
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Anonymous2012-01-04 17:20
``I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.''
-- Dijisktra. A God amongst men.
>>27
Dijisktra must be rolling in his grave because of all those people using an OS derived from the Quick and Dirty Operating System.
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Java Considered Harmful2012-01-04 19:28
Edsger Dijkstra on Java (Trouw, 18 Oct 2000)
Interviewer : There is some progress? There are new programming langugages that make everything easier, even ordinary internet users have heard of Java.
Dijkstra : It's embarrassing. Because it is so bad. The only reason Java has been accepted is because it is a product of a company, SUN, that has made enormous advertisement for it. Beautiful programming languages exist, and a good language, like a tool, is just a joy. But industry doesn't want that. Probably because decisions are made by technically incompetent people.
Steven T. Abell on Java (formerly Java Technology evangelist at Netscape)
I came to Java from a different world of programming, the Smalltalk world. For people who program in Smalltalk, Java is a 30-year step back.
Alan Kay on Java (OOPSLA '97)
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
Donald Knuth on Java
I get secret satisfaction when bad ideas take hold and suck a lot of people in ... like Java (Just teasing.)
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Anonymous2012-01-05 0:31
lisp lisp lsip plsidlspp
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Anonymous2012-01-05 4:09
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Knuth
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