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I believe the "premature evil" quote is by Knuth, not Hoare?!

• swiftcoder 7mo ago
  Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first
  • Intermernet 7mo ago
    Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil...
  • Bengalilol 7mo ago
    Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).