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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:13:33PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Peter da Silva:
> > I seem to be unable to trust several thousands of lines of line noise
> > written by people insane enough to actually like Perl.
>
> Why stop there? Why not mistrust GCC, hateful thing that it is,
> (http://simon.hates-software.com/) glibc, which is some of the most insane C
> code I've ever seen, and the Linux syscall implementations?
Read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
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7a. Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).
-- RFC 1925
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