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"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
by edejong 7y ago
"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. " - EWD 340 [1]
[1] E.W. Dijkstra - The Humble Programmer, ACM Turing Lecture 1972 (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...)
- ScottBurson 7y agoReally interesting to read this now, almost 50 years later. So much has changed — and so little has changed.
- edejong 7y agoAbsolutely. Many of Dijkstra's EWDs have aged remarkably well. [1] [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/