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Posted Apr 18, 2012 12:50 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Not Again by tjc
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

I recall it was Ritchie, but I could be wrong. And yes, that's the quote I was thinking of.


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Posted Apr 19, 2012 11:00 UTC (Thu) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Although there seem to be several sources on the web attributing it to Ritchie (e.g .http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=doc/articles/clueless) Wikiquote attributes it to Thompson, citing Kernighan & Pike as the source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson
My copy of TUPE is at home so I can't check it, but I'm inclined to believe Kernighan & Pike would have got it right.

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