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swiftcoder 7 hours ago

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

Intermernet 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

Bengalilol 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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