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"Nothing lives longer than temporary code." Love this quote. I assumed it was an existing quote/idiom, but it looks to be original.
by powrtoch 14y ago
"Nothing lives longer than temporary code."
Love this quote. I assumed it was an existing quote/idiom, but it looks to be original.
- brandonsavage 14y agoIt's not original to me. Not sure where I heard it, but I know it's not mine.
- npsimons 14y agoThus spake the master programmer: "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
- janus 14y agoNothing is more permanent than the temporary: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/243216 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/243216
- sinkhole 14y agoMy personal version is "Broken gets fixed, shoddy lasts forever" http://mattrose.github.com/2009/02/04/broken-gets-fixed-shoddy-lasts-forever/ http://mattrose.github.com/2009/02/04/broken-gets-fixed-shod...