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The Phil Karlton quote is fun and clever. But people should not mistake it for actual wisdom. Read this paper (for example) and tell me that naming and cache
by haberman 11y ago
The Phil Karlton quote is fun and clever. But people should not mistake it for actual wisdom.
Read this paper (for example) and tell me that naming and cache invalidation are harder than that: http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/klein-sosp09.pdf http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/klein-sosp09.pdf
- AdrianRossouw 11y agoi prefer the varian't that says : There are only 2 hard problems in programming: 1. naming things. 2. cache invalidation. 3. off by one errors.