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Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines (catb.org)
3 points by marcodiego on July 5, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Nihilist Software Engineering:

* No code runs faster than no code.

* No code has fewer bugs than no code.

* No code uses less memory than no code.

* No code is easier to understand than no code.

* No code is the best way to have secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

* "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code." -- Ken Thompson

* "The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there." -- Gordon Bell

* "Deleted code is debugged code." -- Jeff Sickel




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