If a program is no longer useful, it will have to be documented.If on the contrary, a program is indeed useful, it has to be changed. Any running program is obsolete. The value of a program is directly proportional to the weight of it's output. All programs expand to fill any available memory. A program's complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer to maintain it. Make the programmers to write in English and you will find that the programmers cannot write in English.Bradley's Bromide: If all computers get too powerful, we must organize them into a committee - that will do them in. Hoare's Law of Large Programs: Inside every large program, there is a small program struggling to get the hell out. Weinberg's Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. Adding manpower to an already late software project makes it later.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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