Daily Fortunes

Aug 14, 2013

Do you suffer painful elimination? --...
Do you suffer painful elimination? -- Don Knuth, "Structured Programming with Gotos" Do you suffer painful recrimination? -- Nancy Boxer, "Structured Programming with Come-froms" Do you suffer painful illumination? ...

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very...
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. -- Dick Brandon

Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know...
Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.

Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good...
Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student? Does a good father allow a single child to starve? Does a good programmer refuse to maintain his code? -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao...

Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.

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