Cerebral Mastication » programming http://www.cerebralmastication.com Something to Chew On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Programmer Quotes http://www.cerebralmastication.com/2009/03/programmer-quotes/ http://www.cerebralmastication.com/2009/03/programmer-quotes/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:34:10 +0000 JD Long http://www.cerebralmastication.com/?p=232 Since I am an economist and not a computer scientist I sometimes feel like I’m not a real programmer, even though I spend hours hacking together bad code. One of my feelings of inadequacy is that all my programs seem to spend 85% of the time on what I have come to call “plumbing” and only 15% on actually doing useful stuff. According to this quote I ran across today, I’m way better than average:

Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system; the rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping.

Mary Shaw
Carnegie-Mellon University

Ahhh…. I’m gooood. Beer time, baby!

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