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Re: Great programming quotes

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Post by 10ren » Wed, Jul 14, 2010, 8:18 AM UTC

hazmattron wrote: post #6

Linux is only free if your time has no value True, but in my experience it's a worthy investment of valuable time. I spent three years using Linux distros, and though I use OSX now, I'm much more comfortable with general system administration than I would have been otherwise.

Linux: great for developing, terrible for consumption.

Re: Great programming quotes

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Post by 10ren » Wed, Jul 14, 2010, 8:28 AM UTC

There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. - Alan Turing

Douglas Adams' version of Hoare's make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.:

their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. http://www.otostopcu.org/yazi/h2g2/b4c36.php

Re: Great programming quotes

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Post by arethuza » Wed, Jul 14, 2010, 10:08 AM UTC

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

C. A. R. Hoare

Re: Great programming quotes

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Post by balding_n_tired » Wed, Jul 14, 2010, 12:44 PM UTC

In Jon Bentley's long-ago "Programming Pearls" column in CACM he had at least one "Computer Science by Bumper Sticker" column. You can find one in the collection_Programming Pearls_ .