C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance. — Erik Naggum Guesswork Copy Share Image
Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul. — Erik Naggum Comedy Copy Share Image
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really… — Erik Naggum Affection Copy Share Image
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk:… — Erik Naggum Community Copy Share Image
Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and… — Erik Naggum Art Copy Share Image
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Behavior Copy Share Image
Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature… — Erik Naggum Clever Copy Share Image
I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do… — Erik Naggum Beauty Copy Share Image
Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will… — Erik Naggum Darkness Copy Share Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
What people "want" is a function of what they learn is available. If you wish to sell something, you'd better understand that… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined… — Erik Naggum Bystanders Copy Share Image
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do… — Erik Naggum Duped Copy Share Image
Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking… — Erik Naggum Dealing with people Copy Share Image
C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't… — Erik Naggum Complex problems Copy Share Image
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those… — Erik Naggum Animal Copy Share Image
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so… — Erik Naggum Existence Copy Share Image
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I… — Erik Naggum Architecture Copy Share Image
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively… — Erik Naggum Ability Copy Share Image
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
