Python是一种不切实际的、令人讨厌的语言(我仍然可以读到一些关于我早期代码的注释，抱怨它)，而c++是唯一真正的面向对象语言。

我错得太离谱了，到现在还觉得羞愧。

In the early days, most personal computers had a cassette tape interface for loading and storing programs. I did not have a computer at this time but read everything I could get my hands on (mostly magazines) that had anything to do with computers (this was the late 70's - no internet for me). For some reason I was under the impression that programs were executed directly from the cassette tape and that the only reason computers had any RAM was to store variables while the program ran. I figured that when the code had to execute a jump instruction, it would somehow rewind or advance the tape to the correct position and continue from there.

通过实现客户想要的东西来满足客户——不幸的是，这意味着客户知道他想要什么。

我一直认为，任何为任何语言编写任何代码的人都会使用编辑程序。

I was working with a client of mine who had me on mostly as support and to write some of the more complex things for him. Well one day he messed up a file, big time. He accidentally saved over three hours worth of his own work, and when I asked him why he didn't save more often he replied with, "because I wasn't done". Naturally, this was not an acceptable answer, and I poked and prodded a little further. I eventually came to find out that he he has never used any editing program, EVER! Not even notepad.exe! He had been using an online CPanel editor for files! It didn't even have a 'Find' function. He couldn't ever save until he was done because he was editing the live file on the site!

不用说，我很惊讶，他至今仍在使用CPanel编辑器……

如果我有一个像ML或Haskell中那样强大的静态类型系统，我应该使用它来编码尽可能多的不变量。只有有了经验，我才知道有时最好让不变量是动态的。

我以为静态输入就是你一动不动地坐在键盘前。