shivers@bronto.soar.cs.cmu.EDU (Olin Shivers) (05/14/91)
I need to know, for my dissertation, who coined the expression "Strong types are for weak minds." If anyone out there can attribute this, I'd be grateful. Thanks. -Olin
rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) (05/14/91)
In article <9105131328.aa05081@mc.lcs.mit.edu> shivers@bronto.soar.cs.cmu.EDU (Olin Shivers) writes: I need to know, for my dissertation, who coined the expression "Strong types are for weak minds." If anyone out there can attribute this, I'd be grateful. Thanks. -Olin Real programmers don't document. Documentation is for simps who can't read the listing or the object deck. Real programmers don't write in Pascal, or Bliss or Ada, or any of those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories. Real programmers know better than the users what they need. . . . -- From Peter Capek @ YKTVMV via Mark Seiden @ dagobah **==> That was James Gosling's plan file. Also, +------------------------------------------------------+ |Ed Post, "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal", | |_DATAMATION_, July 1983, pp. 263-265 (Readers' Forum).| +------------------------------------------------------+ Rolf Lindgren | "The opinions expressed above are 616 Bjerke Studentheim | not necessarily those of anyone" N-0589 OSLO 5 | rolfl@hedda.uio.no