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 Post subject: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:53 pm 
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What are your favorite quotes about programming and/or OS development?

My favorites:
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There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Brendan wrote:
Letting a process do its own scheduling is like letting the children manage a kindergarten's finances.
I might have forgotten something.


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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 2:42 pm 
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One I just saw in a thread I frequent elsewhere:

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Any time a function is named "easy*" or "safe*", it's a good shorthand for "this developer did not think hard enough about what they were doing".


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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.


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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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There are two kinds of people: those who have lost data due to a system crash, and those who will.

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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Kazinsal wrote:
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Any time a function is named "easy*" or "safe*", it's a good shorthand for "this developer did not think hard enough about what they were doing".
Quite true. Even the strlcpy and strlcat functions are considered safe, though they might truncate a string in the middle of a multibyte character!

iansjack wrote:
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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.
I don't see any real correlation in this.

Hellbender wrote:
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There are two kinds of people: those who have lost data due to a system crash, and those who will.
Correction:
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There are three kinds of people: those who have lost data due to a system crash, those who will, and those who will never learn.



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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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I don't see any real correlation in this.
Don't you get the joke?

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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Roman wrote:
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I don't see any real correlation in this.
Don't you get the joke?

Dad's influence. The girl isn't playing. She works.

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:59 am 
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The Tao of Programming wrote:
Thus spake the Master Programmer:
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained."


The Tao of Programming wrote:
There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?"

"An operating system," replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said.

"Not so," said the programmer, "When designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but which is easier to debug?"

The programmer made no reply.


The Tao of Programming wrote:
The Master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices.

"The Tao is embodied in all software -- regardless of how insignificant," said the Master.

"Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?" asked the novice.

"It is," came the reply.

"Is the Tao in a video game?" asked the novice.

"It is even in a video game," said the Master.

"Is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?" asked the novice.

The Master coughed and shifted his position slightly. "The lesson is over for today," he said.

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:33 am 
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glauxosdever wrote:
Hellbender wrote:
There are two kinds of people: those who have lost data due to a system crash, and those who will.
Correction:
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There are three kinds of people: those who have lost data due to a system crash, those who will, and those who will never learn.
I generally hear that one as "There are two kinds of people, those who make backups, and those who have never had a broken harddisk"


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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.
I don't see any real correlation in this.
Maybe you should try and sniff something to see it. It's not the only reference to software developed under influence :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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Hey, for the past twenty-five years I have said that it is no coincidence that the systematic decline in software quality across the industry began at the same time as the introduction of mandatory drug screening,

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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glauxosdever wrote:
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There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.



There are 2 kinds of people:
  • those who think there are 2 kinds of people
  • those who don't

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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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Don wrote:
glauxosdever wrote:
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There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.



There are 2 kinds of people:
  • those who think there are 2 kinds of people
  • those who don't


There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who were expecting a binary joke.


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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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alexg wrote:
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who were expecting a binary joke.


UDP jokes aren't always funny.


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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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Hi,


alexg wrote:
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who were expecting a binary joke.
Ha! A ternary joke. What's the prize for understanding it? :wink:

Another quotes I like:
Quote:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Quote:
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.



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 Post subject: Re: Quotes about programming and/or OS development
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Don wrote:
glauxosdever wrote:
Quote:
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.



There are 2 kinds of people:
  • those who think there are 2 kinds of people
  • those who don't


Rofled on this one. Nice!

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