You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

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The best book on programming for the layman is ""Alice in Wonderland""; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

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A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

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It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?

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