Elf on programming
2007-04-24 14:10:02.465696+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
From Elf Sternberg, whose characters in Sterlings: The Old Country Returns don't claim to be coming up with it so he's probably just rephrasing succinctly a witticism from elsewhere:
"I heard it that a programmer was a device for turning coffee into source code. And a compiler is a device for turning source code into bugs. So a programmer with a compiler is..." She let the obvious consequences of that chain of logic trail off. "So, which is it?"