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Oh thanks! Yeah, seems Adams may well be the originator. p.s. I just wrote to him now asking about this! Maybe the truth will surface...
by yesenadam 5y ago
Oh thanks! Yeah, seems Adams may well be the originator.
p.s. I just wrote to him now asking about this! Maybe the truth will surface...
- pvg 5y agoAnother person to ask, I suppose, is Atwood.
- pvg 5y agoI think a plausible explanation that fits all the bits and pieces is that Adams wrote this as a kind of riff of his own, inspired by the concept of 'Egoless Programming'. At some later point Atwood ran across some version of the 'commandments' list, thought they were quotes from the book and wrote his blog post. Thinking they were quotes, he probably didn't feel the need to cite where he found them. It's just a somewhat silly mistake, it happens - although it inadvertently spawned a mighty stream of Internet Wrongness. He should have probably updated and corrected the blog post when someone pointed out his mistake to him in 2016. He probably still should.