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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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Bloom Computer Flower Fortean Grow Hardy Occasionally Weed
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
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
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
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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Better Data Function Operate Structure
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable

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