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swiftcodertoday at 11:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

Potentially its by either (or even both independently). Knuth originally attributed it to Hoare, but there's no paper trail to demonstrate Hoare actually coined it first


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Intermernettoday at 11:36 AM

Turns out that premature attribution is actually the root of all evil...

Bengaliloltoday at 11:38 AM

Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).