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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
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There was a saying in the 1970's. . . ."If builders built buildings, the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
That was said by Edsger Dijkstra I think, one of the pioneers of software engineering and designing software on sound principles, as opposed to just 'programming' a computer.
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A Google says it was Weinberg.