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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (programmingisterrible.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C

Is this a joke ~~or an AI hallucination~~? I'm pretty sure Sartre never wrote about programming in ANSI C.

There is a book called "Programming in ANSI C" by E. Balagurusamy

I can only find other references to this quote from sites that are linking this article.

The article actually does date back to 2016 so it's not AI generated.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I should have tried a bit harder to search, the original quote by Sartre is:

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks for checking