The programming problem is more a matter of getting rid of poor programmers than
anything else - it has long been true that good programmers outperform poor
ones by more than a factor of ten , and the poor ones are a burden on the good
ones...but unfortunately many of the current professors on programming are
themselves poor programmers with no real sense of taste and style...
R. W. Hamming
...because in all examples that come to mind, the simple and elegant
systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in
execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have
to be debugged into some degree of acceptability.
E. W. Dijkstra