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I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

Topics: Recovery, Writing, Errors, Unix

quote real programmers don t comment their code if it was hard to write it should be hard tom van vleck Quotes

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.

Topics: Agony, Water, Suffering, Sewage

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Topics: Real, Writing, Should, Writing Code, Computer Programmers

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.

Topics: Real, Night, Up All Night, All Night

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

Topics: Real, Writing, Cobol

You learn something every day, unless you're careful.

Topics: Careful

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