我曾经认为编写Win32应用程序就足够了。

而且每个程序都必须有一个GUI，因为命令行已经“过时”了。

我仍然对以下的一些误解感到困扰——尽管我知道这些误解是正确的，但我仍然试图抓住它们不放:

All stakeholders will make decisions about software design objectively. Those that aren't embroiled in writing the code make all sorts of decisions based entirely on emotion that don't always make sense to us developers. Project budgets always make sense - I've seen companies that are quite happy to drop [just for example] $50,000 a month for years rather than pay $250,000 to have a project completed in 6 months. The government for one loses their annual budget if they don't spend it - so spend it they will, come hell or high water. It astounds me at how many project dollars are wasted on things like this. You should always use the right tools for the right job - sometimes this decision is not in your hands. Sometimes it comes down from on high that "thou shalt use X technology" for this project, leaving you thinking "WTF! Who came up with that ridiculous idea?"... the guy paying your paycheque, that's who, now get it done. Programming ideology comes first and foremost, everything else is secondary. In reality, deadlines and business objectives need to be met in order to get your paycheque. Sometimes you make the worst decisions because you just don't have time to do it the right way... just as sometimes that word is on the tip of your tongue but the minute it takes to recall it makes you choose a different and less ideal word. There isn't always time to do it right, sometimes there is only time to do it - however that may be. Hence oft' seen anti-patterns used by so called experienced developers who have to knock out a solution to a problem 10 minutes before the presentation deadline for the software being delivered to your best client tomorrow.

变量实际上只是内存中特定区域的名称。

就查询性能而言，SQL WHERE子句中整数的位比较实际上是免费的。

碰巧，对于前50万行左右来说，这在某种程度上是正确的。在那之后，它被证明是完全无联合国的。

我在计算机科学课程中所学的Karnaugh地图在编程中永远找不到实际用途。

当我第一次听说“鸭子打字”时，我以为它实际上是“管道打字”，类似于人们经常说的鸭子胶带。“Duck typing”听起来是错误的，而“pipe typing”则有一种奇怪的意义(拼凑的类型)。