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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Else Error Everything Program Reborn
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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Error Program Third Way Work
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge

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