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• First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform…
• If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
• If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether…
• Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence…
• We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,…
• Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
• There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

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