Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don….

They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows applianc….

In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage….

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces..

Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell..

Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equa….

Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a ….

Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihoo….

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done..

If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and viol….

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to….

Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 d….

Life is too long to know C++ well..

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have k….

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembl….

Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove chewing gum and duct tape and fix ….

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them..

I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know ….

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal..

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums….

The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software emb….