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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"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."
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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
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"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings."
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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."
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"The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed."
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"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."
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"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
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"Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy."
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"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."
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"After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field."
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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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"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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"Programming is usually taught by examples."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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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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"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
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