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• The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
  For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous....
• The language provides a programmer with a set of conceptual tool
  if these are inadequate for the task, they will simply be ignored....
• Friendship is neither transitive nor inherited. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language
• The determined programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language.
• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. -- B. L. Whorf
• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. -- Benjamin Whorf
• 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....
• C n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet.
  2. ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement Unix...
• C: n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet. 2.
  ASCII 1000011. 3. The name of a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie during the early 1970s and immediately used to reimplement {{UNIX}}...