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| From | ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) |
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| Subject | Re: The Value of a 2nd Look At Code |
| Date | 31 Jan 2026 14:38:00 GMT |
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=?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote or quoted: >OK, I'm not proud to have forgotten that. He was probably more speaking >about writing books than writing code, but there are a lot of >similarities in the two processes. I recently read this somewhere, was it here? "Works are not finished, they are abandoned." (or similar). >Which would be a very bad idea because people would start to put one >word by line every time it's possible |When programmers are paid by the line of code, how do you |suppose the array X[1..1000] is initialized to zero? Jon Bentley, in "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, February 1986, Volume, 29 Number 2
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