2 Jan
2017
2 Jan
'17
8:53 a.m.
Don't we usually express that as "You can write FORTRAN in any language"?
Wesley Parish
Quoting Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com>:
On 1 January 2017 at 11:50, Noel Chiappa
<jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote (in part):
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
Which just goes to provide support for my
long-term contention, that
language
features can't help a bad programmer, or
prevent them from writing
garbage.
Indeed. In one of his books, Wirth laments about programmers proudly
showing him terrible code written in Pascal and goes on to say the
same thing.
N.