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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C I am pretty sure that is at least a misattribution.
by danbruc 11y ago
Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C
I am pretty sure that is at least a misattribution.
- frostmatthew 11y agoI believe all (or at least most) of the "quotes" have been re-purposed/altered by the [blog's] author. e.g. "Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance" is based on Jean-Paul Sartre's actual quote[1] "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance." [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
- RamshackleJ 11y agoIt's kinda sad that no one else seams to be picking up on this. To lead off with that intentionally altered quote and looking at code in terms of how existentialists frame reality is the most significant insight. edit: Radical Freedom in my programs intensifies
- bshimmin 11y agoWasn't it Sartre who famously wrote Three o'clock is both too early and too late to start refactoring?
- curlew 11y agoHell is other people's code.