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The Level of Incompetence

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of…

Goto Labels and Their Mandatory Requirements

Goto labels should be left-aligned in all caps and should include the…

Code Maintained by a Violent Psychopath

Code as if whoever maintains your program is a violent psychopath who…

The Comprehensibility of a Computer Program

Clearly, at some level comments have to be useful. To believe…

Real Programmers do not use Pascal

As long as there are ill defined goals, bizarre bugs, and unrealistic…

That is what we Expect Programmers to Do

I wonder how many great novelists have never read someone else’s…

Experts in the Practical and Scientific Spheres

We become authorities and experts in the practical and scientific…

The 90 Percent Software Development Time Principal

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of…

The Real World of the Real Programmer

When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the…

Writing a Complicated Computer Program

If you haven’t spent at least a month working on the same…

How men will Become Good Builders

The moral virtues, then, are engendered in us neither by nor contrary…

The Message to the Serious Programmer

My message to the serious programmer is: spend a part of your working…

Love Letter to the Hardware

In the early years of programming, a program was regarded as the…

Models of Galaxies in a Computer

I can make models of galaxies in a computer, but I can’t…

Chaotic Control Structure Degrades [Programmer] Performance

The evidence suggests only that deliberately chaotic control…

The Fool and Successful Software

Any fool can defend his or her mistakes and most fools do. Dale…

Busy With Excuses

When you are busy making excuses, you are not making money, making…

Here is a Dead Program

A dead program normally does a lot less damage than a crippled one.…

Programmers as Craftspeople

Programmers are craftspeople trained to use a certain set of tools…

Classic Spaghetti Code

Programs that use exceptions as part of their normal processing…

A Well Designed Module

The single most important factor that distinguishes a well designed…

The People who Preach Software Design

People who preach software design as a disciplined activity spend…

No Hurry with the Design Process

We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so…

Of Abstractions and the Underlying Implementation

It ain’t abstract if you have to look at the underlying…

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