unwritten laws of data processing, circa 1973

[KeithB]

Even though the examples are in Fortran and PL/1, every programmer should read Kernigham and Plauger "Elements of Programming Style". A couple of my favorite quotes:

"Floating point numbers are like sandpiles: every time you move one, you lose a little sand and
pick up a little dirt"

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place.
So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"