Kensan on Nostr: Randomly searching for a Niklaus Wirth reference and I come across this gem from ...
Randomly searching for a Niklaus Wirth reference and I come across this gem from 2008: A Brief History of Software Engineering by Niklaus Wirth.
From the conclusion:
“A primary effort must be education toward a sense of quality. Programmers must become engaged crusaders against home-made complexity. The cancerous growth of complexity is not a thing to be admired; it must be fought wherever possible.”
Paper:
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.pdf
From the conclusion:
“A primary effort must be education toward a sense of quality. Programmers must become engaged crusaders against home-made complexity. The cancerous growth of complexity is not a thing to be admired; it must be fought wherever possible.”
Paper:
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Miscellaneous/IEEE-Annals.pdf