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Tom Van Vleck

Tom Van Vleck Biography

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Tom Van Vleck is an individual of an unknown profession. Detailed information about his life and achievements is limited at this time.

Tom Van Vleck is an individual of an unknown profession. Detailed information about his life and achievements is limited at this time.

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“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.”

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“Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.”

Ifs Real Night All Night Programmers Up All Night

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.”

Writing Real Programmers Cobol

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“You learn something every day, unless you're careful.”

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"”

Ifs Writing Said Left Stuff Half Machines Errors Recovery Hey Code Programming Halls Routine Panic Crash Unix

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.”

Ifs Knows Problem Suffering Causes Black Water Quality Disease Victim Programming Software Agony Plague Corpses Pouring Software Engineering Sewage

Author:Tom Van Vleck

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