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The Emperor's Old Clothes (1981) [pdf] (fsu.edu)
30 points by brudgers on June 27, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



My favorite quote: "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ deficiencies."


Considering Hoare implemented Algol 60 and is in his early 80s, it's amazing what a young science we have.


Got about half way through this and then realized that this is off my old professors site and I probably already read the whole thing for class a long time ago lol!


OCR please.


It's already been OCRed. Just Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, flip to a text editor, Ctrl-V.




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