[REBOL] Re: Not-too-smart Table Parser (was: how to handle tables?)
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 23-Sep-2001 22:58
Hi, Colin,
[Sanghabum--aol--com] wrote:
> [meekerdb--rain--org] writes
> > There are two ways to write error-free programs.
> > Only the third one works.
>
> Your sig reminded me of a quote from Tony Hoare (The devisor of the language
> occam):
>
> "One way (of designing software) is to make it so simple that there are
> obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that
> there are no obvious deficiencies."
>
Which, in turn, reminds me of one of my favorite quotations from Larry
Wall:
The fact that something is obviously happening,
doesn't mean that something obvious is happening.
> The original article is freely available on the web at
>
> www.tlc-systems.com/babbage.htm
>
> I'm sure you'll agree that it's a valuable contribution to the language
> design debate.
>
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I remember the original article,
but had forgotten how ingeneous it was.
-jn-
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