campfire conversations
If a programmer is found to be indispensable, the best thing to do is get rid of him as quickly as possible. - The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg (Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1971) Sone years ago, when COBOL was the great white programming hope, one heard much talk of the possibility of executives being able to read progrms ... nobody can seriously have believed [this] ... even programmers do not read programs. -Weinberg, P.5 There are ... programs that should be thrown away before ever being used. -Weinberg, P.20 Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife ... we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. -Weinberg, P.22 If the programmer is working in a language that allows only three dimensions, we are not likely to observe more than three....