I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
GOTO, n. : A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
I graduated from college with a 3. 92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Would you rather Test-First, or Debug-Later ?
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
When in doubt, leave it out.
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.
For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.