"It is more important to have the right problem
done the wrong way, than to have the wrong problem done
the right way."

Sounds like a nonsense. Does "problem done the wrong way" implies the problem indeed isn't solved at all, doesn't it?

пт, 10 мар. 2017 г. в 10:42, Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>:

This stirred ancient memories in praise of wrong programs:

> > * If your program sorts a list, then your program is wrong.
>
> This seems a very strange claim.
>
> The whole thing is an abuse of the word "wrong".
> A program can be all of ugly, inefficient, unidiomatic,
> &c &c without being WRONG.

Fifty-plus years ago, when computing was 1000 times slower
and cost $600/hour, it was typical for professional programmers
to mediate between scientists and computers so that
those expensive machines would be used efficiently. At Bell
Labs, though, Dick Hamming insisted on open-shop computing
because "It is more important to have the right problem
done the wrong way, than to have the wrong problem done
the right way."

Doug
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