My thoughts as an enterprise Java developer.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Ethical programming

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
(Passed on by Reid Nimz.)

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