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My Top 10 Programming Proverbs

Antonin J. (they/them) on June 06, 2019

I cross-posted this post on my personal blog. A little while back, I started a repo of funny (and insightful!) programming quotes and proverbs. ...

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Ryan Palo • Jun 7 '19 • Edited

I like

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Followed by

If you say you don’t like code because it is too slow, I say show me the benchmark that proves the extra complexity is worth it.

And

Think twice about writing code for potential future features. It usually makes your current feature code more complicated, and you double your work if you are wrong about what features are coming.

And slight shameless self-quote:

Write code using methods you wish you had. Then go write those methods.

Andreas Jakof • Jun 9 '19 • Edited

That’s how I write code. 😎
First run is usually something like Pseudocode in VS, using methods that not yet exist but lining the rough path.

And then the tedious work.
Next run, the same for each of the not yet existing methods.
And so on... until all methods do, what they are supposed to.

Antonin J. (they/them) • Jun 7 '19

Go to the quotes repo and open up a PR for that self-quote!

Jack Harner 🚀 • Jun 6 '19

With commit and deploy access comes great responsibility

My Favorite

Lars Klopstra ⚡ • Jun 7 '19

Shouldn't that be merge instead of commit tho?

Antonin J. (they/them) • Jun 7 '19

I guess that depends! I was thinking more about not being able to push to master unless you have that permission.

Amber Wilkie • Jun 7 '19

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

Andreas Jakof • Jun 9 '19

Amen!

Dennis Lahay • Jun 7 '19

"Working code is better than good looking code."

Antonin J. (they/them) • Jun 7 '19

Not listed but one of my other favorites:

What happens in Git stays in Git

David Wickes • Jun 6 '19

Antonin - you may enjoy these Perl(i)s of wisdom

Eugene Karataev • Jun 7 '19

There is also The Zen of Python

Antonin J. (they/them) • Jun 7 '19

I know! There are tons of these. :)

Javier Aguirre • Jun 7 '19

Leave the camp better than you found it, it applies to programming and almost everything in life 😁

Drozerah • Jun 7 '19

Get app, stand app, stand app for your app! Get app, stand app, don't give up the fight!

Antonin J. (they/them) • Jun 7 '19

Is this Dr. Seuss? 😂

Drozerah • Jun 7 '19

Keep it secret !

Noah Hornberger • Jun 8 '19

If you don't know how to solve the problem, stop typing. It's not funny, but it saves lots of time.

gdcohen • Jun 7 '19

My favorite: "There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't".