Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
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We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.
Gerald Weinberg in The Psychology of Computer Programming
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Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
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Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.
Programmers can be lazy.
quote by Larry Wall
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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
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LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
quote by Alan Perlis
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
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Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
quote by Leonard Brandwein
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
quote by Bjarne Stroustrup
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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
quote by Niklaus Wirth
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Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals ... with their eyes opened.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
quote by Larry Wall
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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