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swiftcoder
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Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
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
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Intermernet
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Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil...
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Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).
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