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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

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I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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