“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”
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“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
― The Wizardry Compiled
― The Wizardry Compiled
“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements. We may create tools that help us parse and assemble those requirements into formal structures. But we will never eliminate necessary precision—so there will always be code.”
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