On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:05:46 -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:55:13PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
> >Never over-design. Never think "Hmm, maybe somebody would find this
> >useful". Start from what you know people _have_ to have, and try to
> >
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "raptor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| ok,
|
| "I've done it in one row, why you want it to fit in 80 columns ?!" (or
| something like that can't remember well)
"You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)"
-lwall
-spp
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:52:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Once one starts reading more quotations one will find that quotations
> get misquoted, shortened, misattributed, rewritten, more than you
> really wanted to believe. Some persons seem to be 'quotation
> sponges', everything witt
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 16:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
> "I'm sorry for writing you such a long letter; I didn't have time
> to write a shorter one."
> -- Abraham Lincoln
I thought that was a quote by Pascal?
--
Matthew Cline| Suppose you were an idiot. And
ok,
"I've done it in one row, why you want it to fit in 80 columns ?!" (or
something like that can't remember well)
-- Larry Wall
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> Ok, if we're all contributing quotes, here's mine:
>
> "I'm sorry for writing you such a long letter; I didn't have time
> t
Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:
>
> > Since this thread is in the mood for quotes, here's one I'm fond of...
> > It goes something along the lines of:
> >
> > Any fool can create a complicated system.
> > The real skill is in making a simp
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:37:21PM -0800, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 January 2001 16:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> > "I'm sorry for writing you such a long letter; I didn't have time
> > to write a shorter one."
> > -- Abraham Lincoln
>
> I thought that was a quo
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Since this thread is in the mood for quotes, here's one I'm fond of...
> It goes something along the lines of:
>
> Any fool can create a complicated system.
> The real skill is in making a simple one.
Ok, if we're all contributing qu
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:55:13PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
>Never over-design. Never think "Hmm, maybe somebody would find this
>useful". Start from what you know people _have_ to have, and try to
>make that set smaller. When you can make it no smaller, you've reached
>one point
From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Never over-design. Never think "Hmm, maybe somebody would find this
> useful". Start from what you know people _have_ to have, and try to
> make that set smaller. When you can make it no smaller, you've
> reached one point. That's a good point
I like Linus' quote, but that spirit would probably push Perl too
far into the computer scientists' language traps. Here's a Frank
Lloyd Wright quote I think works a bit better:
Five lines where three are enough is stupidity.
Nine pounds where three are sufficient is stupidity.
But to elimi
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:05:46PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> I've always shaken my head in disbelief when people measure/brag
> about programming prowess by the number of lines of code written.
> A true programmer is able to delete lines and still achieve the same
> functionality while sim
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:55:13PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
>Never over-design. Never think "Hmm, maybe somebody would find this
>useful". Start from what you know people _have_ to have, and try to
>make that set smaller. When you can make it no smaller, you've reached
>one point
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