这段话怎么翻译

[ancient]

“當你撰寫程式的時候，請想像你正在進行一件文學工作。你應該寫出一些給人類閱讀的詩篇而不只是讓機器遵循的指令。”
这是Donald Knuth 於1996 年接受 Dr.Dobb’s Journal 訪問時，被要求對美國程式員說的.　我很喜欢，但不知道英文原文是怎么说的。

[wuyi8808]

gz

[ruanjiandev]

I don't know about this, but I heard an other words in English before, that is:
"Any fool can write code that machine can understand, but good programmer wirte code that people can understand."

[ancient]

oh

[talkfalse]

可以这么翻呀？
英语果然有魅力

[zzwu]

"任何笨蛋都可以写出机器能懂的程序,只有好的程序员才能写出人能懂的程序."

[zzwu]

看错了.

[alidiedie]

zzzzzz

[treesman]

为什么不能这样翻译？哈哈ruanjiandev，原话真是这么说的吗？

[方工]

from: An Interview with Donald Knuth
DDJ chats with one of the world’s leading computer scientists

URL: http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/16_14.pdf
==============================================

DDJ: If you could climb in the pulpit and scold, exhort, and
encourage every working programmer in the United States,
what would you tell them?

DK: The first thing I would say is that when you write a program,
think of it primarily as a work of literature. You’re
trying to write something that human beings are going to
read.
Don’t think of it primarily as something a computer
is going to follow. The more effective you are at making
your program readable, the more effective it’s going to be:
You’ll understand it today, you’ll understand it next week,
and your successors who are going to maintain and modify
it will understand it.