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One person's data is another person's program.
With enough practice, any interface is intuitive.
Hindsight is an exact science.
There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program.
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Lacking any objective measure, we often judge how difficult a program is by how hard a programmer works on it. Using this sort of measure, we can easily fall into believing that the worst programmers are the best - because they work so hard at it. A case in point was a programmer who work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for eight weeks to get a small program running in a new installation. For his efforts, his company gave him an award for exceptional service. Shortly thereafter, another programmer was given the job of making some additions to this program. He found that the program was such a confusing mess that it was easier to rewrite it that to try and modify it.
The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition by Gerald M. Weinberg
ISBN: 0932633420 Page: 165, Chapter 9 This book is available from Amazon
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.
Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.
Proverb - Found in a Linux fortunes file.
From More Programming Pearls: Confessions Of A Coder.
