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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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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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