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

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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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 computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Explain Head Listener Nod Program Wake
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
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
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Once Program Someone Understand Write Wrote
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual

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