Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As

It Is A Mistake To Think That Programmers Wares Are Programs. Programmers Have To Produce Trustworthy Solutions And Present It In The Form Of Cogent Arguments. Programs Source Code Is Just The Accompanying Material To Which These Arguments Are To Be Applied To.

Simplicity And Elegance Are Unpopular Because They Require Hard Work And Discipline To Achieve And Education To Be Appreciated.

Several People Have Told Me That My Inability To Suffer Fools Gladly Is One Of My Main Weaknesses.

When We Had No Computers, We Had No Programming Problem Either. When We Had A Few Computers, We Had A Mild Programming Problem. Confronted With Machines A Million Times As Powerful, We Are Faced With A Gigantic Programming Problem.

Pl/1, The Fatal Disease, Belongs More To The Problem Set Than To The Solution Set.