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““A like N.B. that Ewell ends up inserting under the heading Biker is that every professional tattooist everybody who can remember getting their tattoos remembers getting them from was, from the sound of everybody's general description, a Biker.””

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“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”

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Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images…

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since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?

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A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make…

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I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.

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My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

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