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• candygrammar n. A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic suga
  he term is also a play on `candygram'. COBOL, Apple's Hypertalk language, and a lot of the so-called `4GL' database languages share this property....
• Quote #120 "Even the AI hated [my book]?" "The AI _loved_ it.
  That's when we knew for sure that _people_ were going to hate it....
• Quote #450 "I don't mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
  -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) [Oral tradition]...
• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high
  I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky...
• Don't do that then! imp. [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial complaint] Stock response to a user complaint.
  When I type control-S, the whole system comes to a halt for thirty seconds....
• Don't do that, then!: [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial complaint] Stock response to a user complaint.
  When I type control-S, the whole system comes to a halt for thirty seconds....
• Quote #27 As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
  Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs....
• There's a lesson that I need to remember When everything is falling apart In life
  just like in loving There's such a thing as trying to hard You've gotta sing Like you don't need the money Love like you'll never get hurt You've gotta dance Like nobody's watching It's gotta come from the heart If you want it to work....