Timeline for What's your favourite quote about programming?
Current License: CC BY-SA 2.5
11 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2010 at 4:34 | comment | added | Mateen Ulhaq | But what if it's "perfect" code? There's no way to "debug" that. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 17:48 | comment | added | Fishtoaster | I think the implication is that you should avoid that programmer's urge to use the 'clever' way to do something when the slightly longer, more obvious way of doing something works just fine. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 9:55 | comment | added | Jon Hopkins | I love the quote but the implication is that we should at most put 50% of our effort into coding in the first place. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 20:30 | history | bounty awarded | Junior Mayhe | ||
| Oct 25, 2010 at 0:49 | comment | added | Tim Williscroft | A corolloary of an otherwise true maxim: Don't forget that a diagram can increase your brain power. You can swap out "remember structure of big thing" to nonvolatile paper. | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 19:26 | comment | added | CodexArcanum | Everytime I'm writing some clever bit of code, I remind myself of this rule and look back over it to see if I can't do things in a simpler way that will be easier to maintain later, or at least add some more comments. | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 14:42 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 | deleted 7 characters in body |
| Sep 10, 2010 at 14:12 | history | bounty awarded | Gelatin | ||
| Sep 8, 2010 at 22:31 | history | edited | Roger Pate | CC BY-SA 2.5 | don't need double quotes within a blockquote |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 10:57 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Sep 1, 2010 at 20:15 | history | answered | Fishtoaster | CC BY-SA 2.5 |