Who wrote this programing saying? "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

I thought ChrisW's research was right, and I tried to confirm it by doing the same thing. I found John Woods' name in 1991 in this thread: Usage of comma operator

Bill Mitchell View profile More options Sep 26 1991, 1:57 am In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (John F. Woods) writes:

[...] Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability.

Damn right!

So maybe John Woods?

Aug 22, 2014: Link is updated.

Its earliest appearance on Google Groups is unattributed in the sig of a post by Martin Golding in 1994.