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Erik Naggum Quotes

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience Picture Quote #1

Life is hard, and then you die Picture Quote #1

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless Picture Quote #1

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes Picture Quote #1

That’s why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C is fast Picture Quote #1

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn’t fatal Picture Quote #1

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Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can’t easily express complex problems in C, so you don’t Picture Quote #1

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real Picture Quote #1

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think of course it’s ironic? Picture Quote #1

Let’s just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it Picture Quote #1

Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee Picture Quote #1

Life is too long to be good at C – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture Picture Quote #1

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C is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance Picture Quote #1

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., Just because he wants speed Picture Quote #1

C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is Picture Quote #1

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on Picture Quote #1

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't Picture Quote #1

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles Picture Quote #1

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The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life Picture Quote #1

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Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience (Erik Naggum Quotes) Life is hard, and then you die (Erik Naggum Quotes) Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless. (Erik Naggum Quotes) Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes. (Erik Naggum Quotes) That’s why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C is fast. (Erik Naggum Quotes) A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn’t fatal. (Erik Naggum Quotes) Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can’t easily express complex problems in C, so you don’t. (Erik Naggum Quotes) Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix whatever was kept together for real. (Erik Naggum Quotes) Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think of course it’s ironic? (Erik Naggum Quotes) Let’s just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it (Erik Naggum Quotes) Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee (Erik Naggum Quotes) Life is too long to be good at C – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture (Erik Naggum Quotes) C is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance (Erik Naggum Quotes) Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., Just because he wants speed (Erik Naggum Quotes) C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is (Erik Naggum Quotes) C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on (Erik Naggum Quotes) Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't (Erik Naggum Quotes) Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles (Erik Naggum Quotes) The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life (Erik Naggum Quotes)