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

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In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
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
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
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
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 can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
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
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
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
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Every Program Purpose Two Written
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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