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unwritten laws of data processing, circa 1973
05-01-2019, 07:08 PM
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RE: unwritten laws of data processing, circa 1973
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?"
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RE: unwritten laws of data processing, circa 1973 - KeithB - 05-01-2019 07:08 PM
Striegel's rule for estimating - striegel - 05-04-2019, 12:02 PM



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