← Back to context Comment by kleiba 12 hours ago I believe the "premature evil" quote is by Knuth, not Hoare?! 3 comments kleiba Reply swiftcoder 11 hours ago Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first Intermernet 11 hours ago Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil... Bengalilol 11 hours ago Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).
swiftcoder 11 hours ago Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first Intermernet 11 hours ago Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil... Bengalilol 11 hours ago Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).
Bengalilol 11 hours ago Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).
Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first
Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil...
Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).