Programming Quotes
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay That sounds about right.
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Heheh, agreed. But is he saying there's no structural integrity to Egyptian pyramids? I don't think that's accurate. Anyways, getting off topic now...
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Heheh, agreed. But is he saying there's no structural integrity to Egyptian pyramids? I don't think that's accurate. Anyways, getting off topic now...
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Judah Himango wrote:
But is he saying there's no structural integrity to Egyptian pyramids? I don't think that's accurate
I don't know if the Egyptian pyramids have structural integrity or not. When I read that quote I envisioned rock-dragging slaves being whipped in the hot sun. That just seemed so appropriate an analogy to some software projects! :)
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Programming Quotes Page[^] :cool: My favorite:
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. Steve McConnell Code Complete
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The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. - Henry Petroski And here I thought that quote was supposed to be attributed to the Windows Vista team... Oh well...:rolleyes:
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
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Programming Quotes Page[^] :cool: My favorite:
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. Steve McConnell Code Complete
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Jello bugs[^], by Kent Beck:
I remember hearing a description of the release process at Microsoft and someone likened it to Jello. You got this software and it's like Jello and people are making changes and it’s shaking and it's shaking and you think you're getting close but the software's still shaking and then it stops shaking just for a second and that's when you ship it.
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Programming Quotes Page[^] :cool: My favorite:
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. Steve McConnell Code Complete
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One of my favorites and it seems to impress my boss is: If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail. I suspose this means sometimes people approach a problem from the perspective of what they currently know or have instead of asking what really is the best way.
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Programming Quotes Page[^] :cool: My favorite:
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. Steve McConnell Code Complete
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Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why. became my instant favorite :)
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Programming Quotes Page[^] :cool: My favorite:
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. Steve McConnell Code Complete
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"Never attribute to malice what can be accounted for by stupidity."
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Judah Himango wrote:
But is he saying there's no structural integrity to Egyptian pyramids? I don't think that's accurate
I don't know if the Egyptian pyramids have structural integrity or not. When I read that quote I envisioned rock-dragging slaves being whipped in the hot sun. That just seemed so appropriate an analogy to some software projects! :)
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Josh Smith wrote:
rock-dragging slaves being whipped in the hot sun
The key is to learn to love the whip.
Software Zen:
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What a load of crap. If you find the bugs in your code before your customer does then you have a better quality product.
Judah Himango wrote:
don't test more; develop better.
If anyone sayes that to me in a job interview I would kick them straight out the door.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
fat_boy wrote:
If you find the bugs in your code before your customer does then you have a better quality product.
No. When you fix the bugs you have a better quality product. Testing of itself does not improve the product, fixing bugs that the testing reveals does.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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What a load of crap. If you find the bugs in your code before your customer does then you have a better quality product.
Judah Himango wrote:
don't test more; develop better.
If anyone sayes that to me in a job interview I would kick them straight out the door.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
You almost sound like my previous boss. He wanted to fix everything with a cap. If there was noise on the line he want to use a cap, if software was not performing because of "noise" then I must use a cap.:laugh: Just does not make sense does it? Well having seen the way some cowboys program I'm amazed that the IT industry is still on it's feet. The sory of change diet works for me :) Regards
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I think the point there is that testing (in particular, unit testing) doesn't make your software better, as some devs seem to think. Instead, testing measures the quality of your code, allowing you to develop it better by refactoring, fixing bugs, designing it better the next iteration.
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Judah Himango wrote:
testing ... doesn't make your software better,
Wrong. (And I was a mechanical engineer before switching to software) any testing makes the product better. How the hell do you think Williams oe Ferrari win a Grand Prox? They didnt do that by rolling the car off the drawing board. They did it through good design, good implementation and good testing. And its the same for any engineered product or object. This is the problem with many programmers, they arent engineers. They dont know how to engineer something.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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fat_boy wrote:
If you find the bugs in your code before your customer does then you have a better quality product.
No. When you fix the bugs you have a better quality product. Testing of itself does not improve the product, fixing bugs that the testing reveals does.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
No. When you fix the bugs you have a better quality product
Oh for gods sake! Dont you think when I wrote 'find' that fixing them is also implied? Do you think anyone would leave a bug un-fixed once found?
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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You almost sound like my previous boss. He wanted to fix everything with a cap. If there was noise on the line he want to use a cap, if software was not performing because of "noise" then I must use a cap.:laugh: Just does not make sense does it? Well having seen the way some cowboys program I'm amazed that the IT industry is still on it's feet. The sory of change diet works for me :) Regards
BLOEDHOND wrote:
He wanted to fix everything with a cap
What is CAP?
BLOEDHOND wrote:
Well having seen the way some cowboys program I'm amazed that the IT industry is still on it's feet
Are you calling me a cowboy? If you are then you are a fool. I was in mech eng before SW. Now I am doing device drivers for windows. If you dont test, youve got unfound bugs. IF youve ghot bugs you dont sell product, and that is one reason the company I work for has 82% of market share in europe and 32% globally. Dont tell me testing doesnt improve quality. Thats a load of intellectual crap.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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BLOEDHOND wrote:
He wanted to fix everything with a cap
What is CAP?
BLOEDHOND wrote:
Well having seen the way some cowboys program I'm amazed that the IT industry is still on it's feet
Are you calling me a cowboy? If you are then you are a fool. I was in mech eng before SW. Now I am doing device drivers for windows. If you dont test, youve got unfound bugs. IF youve ghot bugs you dont sell product, and that is one reason the company I work for has 82% of market share in europe and 32% globally. Dont tell me testing doesnt improve quality. Thats a load of intellectual crap.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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Programming Quotes Page[^] :cool: My favorite:
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. Steve McConnell Code Complete
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Here's one of mine, I think it was me that said it first, not sure though, I've used it a lot of times. "One day someone will look upon my code and say: 'What a hunk of junk, I wonder why it worked in the first place'. I recon there is a 90% chance that that person will be me." I usually say that when someone says my code is good.:P
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Ryan Binns wrote:
No. When you fix the bugs you have a better quality product
Oh for gods sake! Dont you think when I wrote 'find' that fixing them is also implied? Do you think anyone would leave a bug un-fixed once found?
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
fat_boy wrote:
Oh for gods sake! Dont you think when I wrote 'find' that fixing them is also implied? Do you think anyone would leave a bug un-fixed once found?
No and Yes. The reality is that budget and schedule do not always allow all bugs that are found to be fixed, so some will inevitably not get fixed. On top of that, there are aften a number of bugs that don't get picked up with testing, but could have been avoided by writing the software a little bit smarter.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Hi A capacitor. What I'm trying to say is that McConnell does have a point. If you dont change the way that you program a can program your self into a corner and no "bug fixing" will help out, one then would most likely have to re-write
Good architectural design, good implementation and good testing all create a quality product. If the first two are missing of course the last is useless. But even with average design and implementation good testing can raise the quality of a product to meet the markets requirements. And dont forget that it is not all about quality. Price and time to market are also important depending on the profile of the market one is targeting.
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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Josh Smith wrote:
rock-dragging slaves being whipped in the hot sun
The key is to learn to love the whip.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
The key is to learn to love the whip.
Or find a spear and huck it through the slavedriver's throat, as you run for freedom into the valley... :-D
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fat_boy wrote:
Oh for gods sake! Dont you think when I wrote 'find' that fixing them is also implied? Do you think anyone would leave a bug un-fixed once found?
No and Yes. The reality is that budget and schedule do not always allow all bugs that are found to be fixed, so some will inevitably not get fixed. On top of that, there are aften a number of bugs that don't get picked up with testing, but could have been avoided by writing the software a little bit smarter.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Here's one of mine, I think it was me that said it first, not sure though, I've used it a lot of times. "One day someone will look upon my code and say: 'What a hunk of junk, I wonder why it worked in the first place'. I recon there is a 90% chance that that person will be me." I usually say that when someone says my code is good.:P
MLeoDaalder wrote:
"One day someone will look upon my code and say: 'What a hunk of junk, I wonder why it worked in the first place'. I recon there is a 90% chance that that person will be me."
:rolleyes: excellent
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