“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.” IfsShouldWritingRealHardCodeProgrammingCommentProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersWriting Code 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.” WritingRealProgrammersCobol 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.'"” IfsWritingSaidLeftStuffHalfMachinesErrorsRecoveryHeyCodeProgrammingHallsRoutinePanicCrashUnix Author:Tom Van Vleck
