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“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
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“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. ”
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“When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.”
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“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
“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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