Tag: programming languages

Java

C#

Smalltalk

Cobol

Pascal

Java

Forth

Python

Sunkist Orange Soda

Coca-Cola Classic

Pepsi-Cola

Dr. Pepper

Refactor your code often

Throw away obsolete code

Debugging is for wimps

Communicate often with the customer

Netscape invented JavaScript as a stripped-down "lite" version of Java

Java borrowed ideas from JavaScript and made it a full-fledged programming language

They both originate from the same research at Sun Microsystems

There is none; it's all just marketing

Because Ruby forces object orientation and does not permit procedural or functional style code

Because Ruby makes no distinction between objects and primitive types

Because Ruby's syntax is similar to that of Perl

Because Ruby programmers are full of themselves

When the application is running behind a firewall

Never; any program that accepts input can be exploited

When the application is written in Perl using the language's "taint mode"

When the user is your own mother

Use more global variables

Keep variable and function names down to one or two letters

Insert comments throughout your source code files

Use pointer arithmetic wherever possible

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Guido van Rossum

Niklaus Wirth

Bjarne Stroustrup

The code that would have been written last month if your project was on deadline

The amount of code that you can produce in a month on your salary

The fallacy that assigning more staff to a programming job will complete it faster

The fact that like Sysiphus pushing the boulder you can never finish debugging