Erik Naggum Quotes
1965–2009 Norway
Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Lisp programmer.
Also known as: Naggum
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XML is a giant step in no direction at all.
We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.
A novice had a problem and could not find a solution. "I know," said the novice, "I'll just use Perl!" The novice now had two problems.
Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
"Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.
Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.
You have failed to consider the ramifications of the solutions and pose a problem that simply would not exist if you did. This taxes my patience, which is already legendary in its general absence.
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.
In C++, reinvention is its own reward.
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
For some reason, the United States is the only country on Earth where accidents don't happen – it's always somebody's fault, and you can sue that somebody for neglect.
Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.
Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.