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How to Code

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Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

~ Martin Golding

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Jan·25

Debugging vs. Programming

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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

~ Edsger Dijkstra

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Jan·24

Programming

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Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.

~ Louis Srygley

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Jan·23

How Projects Really Work

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The software development life cycle…

how projects really work

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Apr·06

Writing good comments

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Writing good comments can be as difficult as writing the program itself. It is an art well worth cultivating.

~ Bjarne Stroustrup

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Dec·30

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury

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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.

~ Edsger Dijkstra

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Dec·30

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

~ Edsger Dijkstra

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Dec·30

Program Testing

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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

~ Edsger Dijkstra

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Tagged bugs, Edsger W. Dijkstra, testing

Dec·30

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