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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix stories
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:45:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzyrAPLTQS8m06WydSsd5QPmJQVBnmG0b1RpUWe5zHb5qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170101165056.1179318C095@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On 1 January 2017 at 11:50, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote (in part):
> Which just goes to provide support for my long-term contention, that language
> features can't help a bad programmer, or prevent them from writing garbage.

Indeed. In one of his books, Wirth laments about programmers proudly
showing him terrible code written in Pascal and goes on to say the
same thing.

N.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-01 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-01 16:50 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-01 21:45 ` Nemo [this message]
2017-01-02  2:53   ` Wesley Parish
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-01-02 14:30 Doug McIlroy
2017-01-02 18:36 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-01  5:00 Larry McVoy
2017-01-01  6:48 ` Nick Downing
2017-01-02  2:03   ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-02  2:42     ` Nick Downing
2017-01-02  6:01       ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-02  6:21         ` Warren Toomey
2017-01-02  6:25         ` Nick Downing
2017-01-04  4:07           ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-02  7:29       ` arnold
2017-01-02 22:52     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-02 22:56       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-02 22:59         ` Ronald Natalie
2017-01-02 22:58       ` Ronald Natalie
2017-01-02 23:23     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-03  0:49       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-03 11:36         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 13:04         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 14:07           ` Random832
2017-01-04 14:54             ` Ron Natalie
2017-01-04 15:59               ` Random832
2017-01-04 16:30                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 16:32                   ` Random832
2017-01-04 16:51                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 16:54                       ` Random832
2017-01-04 16:58                         ` Ron Natalie
2017-01-04 17:38                           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 17:47                             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 18:51                           ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-04 17:08                         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 16:22             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-04 16:35               ` Random832
2017-01-04 17:03                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 13:46                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-09 14:55                   ` Random832
2017-02-09 17:15                     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-01 13:11 ` Ron Natalie

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