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• FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
  it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. -- E.W. Dijkstra...
• FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today
  it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use....
• PL/I - the fatal disease - belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
  -- Dijkstra, "How do we tell truths that might hurt", -- ACM Sig Plan Notices, May 82...
• BASIC - It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC
  as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration....
• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the pa
  it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger W....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
  It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features....
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....