roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca to ProgrammingEnglish · 26 days agoWrite code that is easy to delete, not easy to extendprogrammingisterrible.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaredrspod@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·edit-226 days ago “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C Is this a joke or an AI hallucination? I’m pretty sure Sartre never wrote about programming in ANSI C. There is a book called “Programming in ANSI C” by E. Balagurusamy I can only find other references to this quote from sites that are linking this article. The article actually does date back to 2016 so it’s not AI generated.
minus-squaredrspod@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up45·26 days agoI should have tried a bit harder to search, the original quote by Sartre is: “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Is this a joke
or an AI hallucination? I’m pretty sure Sartre never wrote about programming in ANSI C.There is a book called “Programming in ANSI C” by E. Balagurusamy
I can only find other references to this quote from sites that are linking this article.
The article actually does date back to 2016 so it’s not AI generated.
I should have tried a bit harder to search, the original quote by Sartre is:
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Thanks for checking