Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Don’t blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for ‘the average programmer’, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra I absolutely fail to see how we can keep our growing programs firmly within our intellectual grip when by its sheer baroqueness the programming language -our basic tool, mind you!- already escapes our intellectual control. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees. Hence industry rejects any methodological proposal that can be viewed as making intellectual demands on its work force. http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/banuj/i_must_confess_that_i_was_very_slow_in/ Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Programming in Basic causes brain damage. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra