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Software "engineering" != CS. I know Greenspun knows that, and I know the CS label is just for the purposes of the joke, but still. Java has already been harm
by tsally 17y ago
Software "engineering" != CS. I know Greenspun knows that, and I know the CS label is just for the purposes of the joke, but still. Java has already been harmful enough to CS. :-p
- ssp 17y agoGreenspun didn't write it, he just posted it on his website.
- basugasu 17y agoThe earliest I can trace it back to is this post to comp.lang.ada in 1994: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/7a96d45d5ccc1ea3 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/7a96d45d5cc... I like how he opens with "I felt like wasting bandwidth" so here's a funny story. Little could he imagine it would become #1 link on Hacker News, 15 years later :-)