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The monotonicity of transfer functions is often quite natural because of a principle that should've been the motto of this university: "It never hurts to know more!"
— Andrew Myers,
when explaining dataflow analysis
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Compilers is not the class to take if you plan to take the easiest classes to satisfy the CS curriculum.
— Andrew Myers,
during the first Compilers class
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Every semester there's this evangelical team member who wants to use Rust for the compiler and convinces the rest of the team to come along. Here's what I'll tell you - there has been one successful Rust group in the history of this class.
— Andrew Myers,
during the first Compilers class
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Functional languages have this cool feature where they waste half your memory.
— Andrew Myers,
on garbage collection
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We use recursion because its cool and it works
— Andrew Myers
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Someone pushed code at 6am and broke the classroom.
— Andrew Myers,
discussing problems with projectors in CS 4120
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The purpose of the prefix "co" is to take something you don't really understand and turn it into something you really don't understand.
— Andrew Myers,
responding to a description of co-monads as "monads, but the other way around"
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It said it's safe and it was wrapped in plastic, what more do you want?!
— Andrew Myers,
Explaining how we should all definitely trust defense contractor handout goodies.
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Huh, I did not know about SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB (edited)
— Andrew Myers,
An accidental Java self-parody, courtesy of slack
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Tom: So this is how Grep works
Andru: Actually, grep did not originally do that. In fact, I fixed grep to use it.
— Andrew Myers,
Discussing implementations of the boyer-moore algorithm.
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