Year: 1983
Type: article
Abstract: Most programmers have seen them, and most good programmers realize they've written at least one.They are huge, messy, ugly programs that should have been short, clean, beautiful programs.I once saw a Cobol program whose guts were IF THISINPUT IS EQUAL TO 001 ADD I TO COUNT001 .
Source: Communications of the ACM
Author: Jon Bentley
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1585772822