Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. — Erik Naggum Answers 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 Believe 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 Common Copy Share Image
Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them? — Erik Naggum Inspirational Copy Share Image
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". — Erik Naggum Appreciation 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 Contrary 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 Be good Copy Share Image
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried… — Erik Naggum Believe 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 Bother 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
The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept. — Erik Naggum Accepting Copy Share Image
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail… — Erik Naggum Counting 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 Assembly Copy Share Image
Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul. — Erik Naggum Ifs Copy Share Image
When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody… — Erik Naggum Accepting 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
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum Delight 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
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
A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution… — Erik Naggum Alive Copy Share Image
If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror. — Erik Naggum Ifs Copy Share Image
