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• Ada n. A Pascal-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• Ada:: n. A {{Pascal}}-descended language that has been made mandatory for Department of Defense software projects by the Pentagon.
  Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fia...
• Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which live was first breathed.
  .. There is granduer in this view of life ... that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being, evolved....
• To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Iphicrate...
• The dismaying thing about man is not where he descended from, but what he is willing to descend to in the course of living life.
• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. -- Balthasar Gracia
• Quote #503 Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this document are not necessarily those of the author.
  At least one of them belongs to Oscar Wilde, though he allows the author to borrow it from time to time....
• Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. -- Charles D'Hericaul
• Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming.
  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...