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."

Question

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

I found this at somebody's blog, and it introduces as Rick Osborne's. But I google this, and other people says: Martin Golding's, John Woods' and Damian Conway's... Yes, Damian Conway used this quote in "Perl Best Practices" but Damian doesn't mention who wrote it.

Does anybody know who the real author of this aphorism is?

Answer 1

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