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  • Re: The Value of a 2nd Look At Code

    From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to comp.programming on Sat Jan 31 14:38:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.programming

    =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote or quoted:
    OK, I'm not proud to have forgotten that. He was probably more speaking
    about writing books than writing code, but there are a lot of
    similarities in the two processes.

    I recently read this somewhere, was it here?

    "Works are not finished, they are abandoned." (or similar).

    Which would be a very bad idea because people would start to put one
    word by line every time it's possible

    |When programmers are paid by the line of code, how do you
    |suppose the array X[1..1000] is initialized to zero?
    Jon Bentley, in "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM,
    February 1986, Volume, 29 Number 2


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