Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.Edsger Dijkstra
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra
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