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The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming 03 Dec 2008 03:35 pm

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What Would John McCarthy Say if He Saw You Programming?

What do you think John McCarthy would say if he saw your code? I don’t think he’d like it…

John McCarthy - You’re Programming Completely Wrong

John McCarthy - Programming, You Are Doing It Completely Wrong.

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4 Responses

Difference Between Edsger Dijkstra and Larry Wall - good coders code, great reuse says:
December 4th, 2008 at 1:05 am
[…] See also what John McCarthy thinks about your code? […]
easports says:
December 4th, 2008 at 4:01 am
The Dijkstra poster is freakin great (I would buy one in a heartbeat), but I don’t know anything about McCarthy’s philosophy. What doesn’t he like my code?
Peteris Krumins says:
December 4th, 2008 at 4:18 am
easports, i don’t know his philosophy either, but he’s super smart, so he’d consider anyone else’s code completely wrong
yc says:
December 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
He would say 91.