Who originally said this:
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.Common wisdom would attribute this quote to Don Knuth, Alan Perlis, John McCarthy, or one of the other great minds of compsci.
According to google, no one really knows. Except for Rohit Khare, that is. Rohit claims that the quote is from David Wheeler, chief programmer for the EDSAC. Need to do some more digging on this one...
So it was me. I admit it, Okay?! 'Nuff said already
:-)
Re:Okay, okay...
jmm on 2002-05-30T21:25:01
Hah! I doubt you were even born when it was first said.
