Comments on: Great Quote On Learning

By: Stephan Eggermont

Stephan Eggermont — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:39:49 +0000

Hmm, that depends on the tests.

By: sri

sri — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:24:53 +0000

Hey — I don’t think Sussman said that explicitly “99.9% of What We Program”
that was me paraphrasing Sussman (and i wasn’t there at the talk) — that 99.9% was pulled out of thin air!!

Actually I remembered some big shot talking about programming in that way and i couldn’t remember who it was;
something like “you really learn when you program…”

Maybe it was Knuth — see comments in his programs below –
(search for “learn”)
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/setset-all.w

And the first comment here
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/lp.w

By: Ramon Leon

Ramon Leon — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:45:28 +0000

:) Interesting that you post that link, I was there. I was blown away by him. Sussman’s a god; Every engineer in the room was busy picking their jaws up from the floor and every programmer was grinning from ear to ear and nodding silently. It was great. Post Amended!

By: sri

sri — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:25:20 +0000

what’s missing:

99.9% of What We Program
http://www.oopsla.org/2005/ShowEvent.do?id=403