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Someone help me with the origin of this (paraphrased) quote, which I have not been able to re-find on my own: "The sooner you admit that you can't fit the whol
by arwhatever 9y ago
Someone help me with the origin of this (paraphrased) quote, which I have not been able to re-find on my own:
"The sooner you admit that you can't fit the whole program's source code in your head, the sooner you can begin incorporating that into your design."
- Jtsummers 9y agoNotes on Structured Programming: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF Page 3: Summarizing: as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure. The Humble Programmer: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF Page 11: The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. He expressed similar thoughts on other occasions. And there are others who express the same idea.
- dorian-graph 9y agoThank you for this! It's nice to have a large repository of EWD's writings.