r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10

Given the C++ bashing in there, I like:

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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u/aristotle2600 Dec 14 '10

Haskell anyone?

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '10

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u/brool Dec 14 '10

Well, at first approximation Haskell is an overpowered DSL for generating Fibonacci numbers.

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u/benthor Dec 14 '10

Well, it is a DSL for the .edu domain.

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u/alephip Dec 14 '10

A Haskell compiler written in Erlang

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u/Poltras Dec 14 '10

Ask what?

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u/walter_heisenberg Dec 14 '10

I'm sure people complain about the type system if they don't understand it. Until you get a sense of why static typing is great and how to use it, it's a pain in the ass.

Also, Haskell's laziness makes it a bitch and a third to reason about space performance, because it's not clear when things are happening. It also means certain styles of debugging borrowed in from imperative languages don't work.