From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-02-26T13:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Morton Goldberg
> <m_goldberg@ameritech.net> wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2008, at 6:56 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>  > One of my friends once passed this little quotation on to me:
>>  >
>>  > "Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a
>>  > violent psychopath who knows where you live."
>>
>>  Truly wonderful. If there were a poster of that available, I'd buy it
>>  and hang it where I could see it when I look up from my screen.
>>
>>  You didn't make an attribution, so I presume you don't know who
>>  originated it. Too bad.
> 
> It is usually attributed to Martin Golding.
> 
> Eivind
> 
> 

I actually first heard it from Martin Golding, and I've forgotten how 
long ago that was. I did a Google search the other day and quite a few 
hits came up for Damien Conway.