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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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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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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Anything Else Like Possible Software
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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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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Any noun can be verbed.
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