In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/19/2006
at 09:57 AM, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Edsger Dijkstra even made humility the point of a paper he delivered
>at a Turing Award lecture, said paper being entitled "The Humble
>Programmer."
Unfortunately, he displayed supreme arrogance in that very paper :-(
>In more practical terms, arrogant programmers all too frequently
>become prima donnas,
That's the least of the problems. They develop blind spots that cause
bugs to remain unresolved.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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