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• The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
  The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages....
• If the tao is great, then the operating system is great.
  If the operating system is great, then the compiler is great....
• In the beginning was the Tao. The Tao gave birth to Space and Time.
  Therefore, Space and Time are the Yin and Yang of programming....
• A novice asked the master: "In the east there is a great tree-structure that men call 'Corporate Headquarters'.
  It is bloated out of shape with vice-presidents and accountants....
• Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said
  You are the Yin and I am the Yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast sums of money....
• 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&...
• BCPL // n. [abbreviation, `Basic Combined Programming Language') A programming language developed by Martin Richards in Cambridge in 1967.
  It is remarkable for its rich syntax, small size of compiler (it can be run in 16k) and extreme portability....
• It is possible by ingenuity and at the expense of clarity.
  .. {to do almost anything in any language}. However, the fact that it is possible to push a pea up a mountain with your nose does not mean that this is a sensible way of getting it there....
• Named after the famous French philosopher and mathematician Rene DesCartes, RENE is a language used for artificial intelligence.
  The language is being developed at the Chicago Center of Machine Politics and Programming under a grant from the Jane Byrne Victory Fund....