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Programmers Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we…
- ...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For…
- If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start…
- 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…
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