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• Quote #601 Most documentation starts as hastily scrawled notes from sleep-deprived developers who weren't necessarily hired for their keen communication skills.
  Those notes are then fleshed out by recently graduated English majors who have spent their last four years immersed in works of fiction....
• Quote #645 I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz.
  "how not to make a mess of it", has not been met. -- Dijkstra (EWD 1304, 2000-11-19)...
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• Quote #646 in the design of sophisticated digital system
  elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a matter of life and death, being a major factor that decides between success and failure....
• legalese n. Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard
  ext that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a language lawyer to suits, and situations in which hackers generally get the short end of the stick....
• Personally, I'd have a far better time writing scripts if I had some more creative shells to script in.
  .. ASMsh: The Assembly shell. Commands include MOV, SHL, SHR, JNE, etc....
• If *I* can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
  "Somebody has to save our skins." - Leia Organa -- ...understanding Product Support......
• dBase is the non-programming language in which non- programmers write non-program
• Quote #640 If you want to do buzzword oriented programming you must use a strongly hyped language.
  -- Mike Joh...