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Quotation of the Day for December 6, 2010"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." - Maurice Wilkes, computer pioneer and creator of Edsac, a computer that first ran in 1949. Wilkes passed away Nov. 30 at the age of 97. [We quoted Wilkes expressing similar sentiments in the qotd mailing of Sep. 6, 1996. -eds.] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11875821] Submitted by: aki Dec. 2, 2010 |
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