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Java is write once, run away. Java is the new COBOL. Quotes Using Java for serious jobs is like trying to take the skin off a rice pudding wearing boxing gloves. – Tel Hudson Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of all the great programmers I can think of who don’t work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero. – Paul Graham Java is the

At the USENIX Summer Conference of 1983 Rob Pike made a presentation titled ‘UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful’ and together with Brian Kernighan wrote the paper ‘Program Design in the UNIX Environment’ (pdf version, ps version), published as an article in AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, October 1984, Vol. 63 No. 8 Part 2. This was a prelude for their famous book The Unix Programm

(Note: This is a copy of the original that used to live at http://www.bluetail.com/~joe/vol1/v1_oo.html) When I was first introduced to the idea of OOP I was skeptical but didn’t know why - it just felt “wrong”. After its introduction OOP became very popular (I will explain why later) and criticising OOP was rather like “swearing in church”. OOness became something that every respectable language

The world is full of things that most people think are OK or even good, when in reality are either evil or plain stupid. This is my humble contribution to attempt to collect all the things that bother me, the goal is not to offend anyone but entertain and try to dispel widespread silly ideas that infest our minds and perhaps in while doing that make the world a bit more reasonable and pleasant pla

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library. Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git Date: 2007-09-06 17:50:28 GMT (2 years, 14 weeks, 16 hours and 36 minutes ago) On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd: > 1. Pure C as opposed to C

“And folks, let’s be honest. Sturgeon was an optimist. Way more than 90% of code is crap.” – Al viro “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” – C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture “One of my most productive days w