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Quote of the weekQuote of the weekPosted Aug 3, 2006 2:03 UTC (Thu) by vputz (subscriber, #5639)Parent article: Quote of the week
Ah, and Fred Brooks continues to be a classic, after more than 20 years: "Show me your [code] and conceal your [data structures], and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your [data structures], and I won't usually need your [code]; it'll be obvious.''
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Quote of the week Posted Aug 3, 2006 8:58 UTC (Thu) by dvrabel (subscriber, #9500) [Link] The quote loses its impact if you edit the key words in the quote."Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks.
Quote of the week Posted Aug 3, 2006 12:05 UTC (Thu) by alfille (subscriber, #1631) [Link] 30 years, describing systems 40 years old. And still pertainant to every open source project.
Quote of the week Posted Aug 3, 2006 16:35 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] Or as the title of my CS 201 textbook (way back in the dark ages) put it, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" (by Nicklaus Wirth). No mention of code in there anyware. Indeed, the entire course was taught using a programming language that didn't exist (a Pascal-like language called Moltex (molto expressivo)), we actually implemented our projects in PL/I. (Told you it was a long time ago).
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