54 Quotes by Erik Naggum

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’t.

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 whatever was kept together for real.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it’s really a sign of affection, but I don’t see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

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 assembly-language design it is based on.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.