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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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