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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central."
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"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
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"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
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"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."
World
"The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision."
Decision
"Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed."
Result
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
Experience
"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings."
Development
"Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system."
Goal
"But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity."
Work
"Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages."
Time
"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence."
Management
"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
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