Stanley Bootle, known as Stan Kelly-Bootle (15 September 1929 – 16 April 2014), was a British author, academic, singer-songwriter and computer scientist.
Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0. 5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.
Committee, n. : A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0. 5.
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