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“Function expressions and variables declared inside a function without using var become global properties.”

— Cody Lindley

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

— Dennis Ritchie

“If you assign a new variable without using the var keyword, that variable will be global, even if you are first assigning it in…

— Eric Freeman

“This really does attack essence. Because the build-on-package phenomenon does not today affect the average MIS programmer, it is not yet very visible to…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“Now when we use the function keyword this way — that is, within a statement, like an assignment statement — we call this a…

— Eric Freeman

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

— David Parnas

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

“Lexical scope means that we can determine the scope of a variable by reading our code.”

— Eric Freeman

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my…

— Joshua Bloch

“Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you…

— David Geary

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

— Joshua Bloch