Fallacy Quote by Niklaus Wirth

“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 is another fallacy.”

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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft]…

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C++ is an insult to the human brain

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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were…

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Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

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During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

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Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become…

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Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

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The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

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Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small…

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could…

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