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=?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote or quoted:

OK, I'm not proud to have forgotten that. He was probably more speaking
about writing books than writing code, but there are a lot of
similarities in the two processes.

I recently read this somewhere, was it here?

"Works are not finished, they are abandoned." (or similar).

Which would be a very bad idea because people would start to put one
word by line every time it's possible

|When programmers are paid by the line of code, how do you
|suppose the array X[1..1000] is initialized to zero?
Jon Bentley, in "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM,
February 1986, Volume, 29 Number 2


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