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   Stefan Ram to CARPENTIER   
   Re: The Value of a 2nd Look At Code   
   31 Jan 26 14:38:00   
   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER  wrote or quoted:   
   >OK, I'm not proud to have forgotten that. He was probably more speaking   
   >about writing books than writing code, but there are a lot of   
   >similarities in the two processes.   
      
     I recently read this somewhere, was it here?   
      
     "Works are not finished, they are abandoned." (or similar).   
      
   >Which would be a very bad idea because people would start to put one   
   >word by line every time it's possible   
      
   |When programmers are paid by the line of code, how do you   
   |suppose the array X[1..1000] is initialized to zero?   
   Jon Bentley, in "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM,   
   February 1986, Volume, 29 Number 2   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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