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Programming Quotes by Niklaus Wirth
- But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
- Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.
- Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy…
- My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate…
- Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve…
- Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh…
- Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not…
- Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and…
- Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
- Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.
- Programming is usually taught by examples.
- Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
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