Eric S. Raymond Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Writing, Learning, Bridges

  "Why Python?". www.linuxjournal.com. Apr 30, 2000.

• When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

  Eric S. Raymond

  Pain, Writing, Data

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.44, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

• Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

  Eric S. Raymond

  Real, Writing, World

• The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fall, Writing, Simple

• Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Writing, Reuse, Programming

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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