Sunday  2004-01-04   Development

Programmers' deadly sins

A few of the deadly sins:

• The first deadly sin is to code before you think.
• The third deadly sin is not to write proper documentation.
• The ninth deadly sin is to pretend you are catering for everyone at the same time.

What is the zeroth deadly sin?
 
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Sunday  2004-01-04   World

The worst thing is to starve

"The worst thing is to starve, the next worst thing is to beg." So says the prime minister of Ethiopia, a country worse off then it was 20 years ago during the peak of the famine.