Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as
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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
Version 1 of any software is full of bugs.
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Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2.
A good programmer is someone who always looks bot
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A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce t
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Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them operators or programmers.
[A]nd then it occurred to me that a computer is a
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[A]nd then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Writing the first 90 percent of a computer progra
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Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time.
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate progr
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At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats.
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rathe
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Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
Any fool can write code that a computer can under
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Programming is like sex. One mistake and yo
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Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Don't argue with people who write with digital in
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Don't argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishabl
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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a
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From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Beta. Software undergoes beta testing short
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Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta is Latin for still doesn't work.
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into s
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Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
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