“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.<p>I just started the article and I already have problems with it, not a good sign.   While it may be obvious when you research the timelines of JPS (he died a few years before ansi c 89 was established) and C , not to mention the miles of metaphorical distance between Computer Programming and JPS&#x27;s work) . I guess the author was trying to be cute??  but that fabrication should be made clear as such. he&#x27;s undermining his own inherent credibility as an author, however much the reader decides to put in. Serious problem in my book.