Selected Writings
- Wildcard Matching Methods
- A Toy C Compiler
- Brainfuck Interpreter and Compiler
- PL/0 Compiler Written in Go
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. |
What society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names —otherwise you would be selling nothing— like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively). |
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. |