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Many people tend to look at p...

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

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In the practical world of com...

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

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Nevertheless, I consider OOP ...

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

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Clearly, programming courses ...

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

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The idea that one might deriv...

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

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A good designer must rely on ...

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

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Our ultimate goal is extensib...

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

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My being a teacher had a deci...

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

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I have never designed a langu...

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

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But quality of work can be ex...

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

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My duty as a teacher is to tr...

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

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Prolific programmers contribut...

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

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Increasingly, people seem to m...

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

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The idea that one might derive...

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

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Good engineering is characteri...

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

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Usually its users discover soo...

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

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Nevertheless, I consider OOP a...

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Niklaus Wirth 03.03.2018 03:03:03 57 quotes

Programming is usually taught ...

Programming is usually taught by examples.

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Program construction consists ...

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

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I have never designed a langua...

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

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